Red · Garda · Italy
Sansonina Merlot
Scored from 279 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italy (947 wines).
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Tasting profile
Deep and rich with intense dark fruit, this Merlot shows notes of licorice, tobacco, and cedar layered over a smooth, full-bodied palate. Reviewers highlight its well-integrated oak, balanced earthy character, and long finish, marking it as an elegant and complex example of the variety.
Synthesized from 279Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Deep, rich, smooth and powerful, intense fruit with a hint of licorice. Superb balance and well integrated oak. An outstanding Merlot. Bottle 1739”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Sansonina Merlot is an Italian red from Garda.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 947 Italian reds. 279 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 286 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Sansonina Merlot lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against Red · Italy (947 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 279.
