Red · Toscana · Italy
Tolaini Al Passo Toscana
Scored from 2,935 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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What reviewers say
“One of my favorites. Visited the winery in Tuscany in 2008 as a guest of Lui Toliani. Tremendous success story with emigration to Canada, starting up & building a hugely successful transportation business (Transx) then going back to Italy to start a winery.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Spicy notes of French oak rise above distinct aromas of cherry and berry. The palate has a backbone of Sangiovese, a roundness of Merlot and enhanced body from the oak. The fruit purity and varietal signatures are testament to the meticulous care given to the young vines.
Tolaini Al Passo Toscana is Sangiovese grown in Toscana, bottled as a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $22.75, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 947 Italian reds. The calibrated figure is built from 2,935 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,993 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 Tolaini Al Passo Toscana 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 2,935.
