Red · Calabria · Italia
Spadafora Peperosso Maglicco - Merlot
Scored from 447 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italia (235 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Un colore rosso rubino con riflessi violacei, intenso e abbastanza persistente. Al naso vengono subito fuori i frutti rossi maturi, su tutti prugna e marmellata di ciliegie, per poi lasciare spazio a una prevalente nota di vaniglia e di tostatura sul finale. Al palato è fresco, morbido con un tannino vellutato, si sente la vaniglia e anche sentori di cioccolato e tostatura sul finale, direi tabacco. Un vino abbastanza complesso, sorprendente specie nel prezzo. Ne farò scorta.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Calabria in Italy, Spadafora Peperosso Maglicco - Merlot is a red. It blends Magliocco Canino and Merlot.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 234 other reds from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole. 447 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 487 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 Spadafora Peperosso Maglicco - 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 · Italia (235 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 447.
