Red · Puglia · Italien
Terrecarsiche 1939 Posizione Primitivo
Scored from 165 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Italien (289 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Rich in everything: colour is dark ruby, on the nose is full, I mean, full of red sweet fruit, like cherry, plums, but with nice mixture of wooden barrels and warmth of earth. The taste seems sweet at the start, because of its mild acidity. Then comes the warmth of the alcohol with dryness of tannins full of fruity bright notes. Aftertaste is long-ish, a bit pepper-ish and sour at the end. Lovely wine, primitively enjoyable.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Puglia in Italy, Terrecarsiche 1939 Posizione Primitivo is a red.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 288 other reds from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole. 165 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 174 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 Terrecarsiche 1939 Posizione Primitivo 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 · Italien (289 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 165.
