Red · Brunello di Montalcino · Italy
Sassetti Livio Brunello di Montalcino
Scored from 1,801 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
An old-style Brunello showing raisin, plum, and sour cherry alongside earth and espresso notes, with elegant complexity and a long finish. Reviewers highlight its smooth, well-integrated acidity and firm but soft tannins, calling it impeccably balanced and a strong match for roast beef or BBQ.
Synthesized from 1,801Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“such a beautiful wine... sensations of earth, espresso, and sour cherry dominate. No signs of age... impeccable balance!! medium acidity, firm but soft tannins, long finish...”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Brunello di Montalcino in Italy, Sassetti Livio Brunello di Montalcino is a red.
946 other reds from Italy form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,801 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,840 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Sassetti Livio Brunello di Montalcino 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 1,801.
