Red · Brunello di Montalcino · Italy
Valdicava Brunello di Montalcino
Scored from 2,646 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
Silky and velvet-smooth yet structured, this Brunello leads with red fruit on the nose and flavors of black cherry, wild plum, jammy cherry, dried fig, and a touch of caramel and smoke. Fruit-forward and seamless, it finishes round and mouth-watering with real personality.
Synthesized from 2,646Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Very fruit forward with a nose of red fruit, and earth. Flavors of jam, cherry, and caramel. Round smooth finish of cherry jam and Smoke”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Brunello di Montalcino in Italy, Valdicava Brunello di Montalcino is a red.
946 other reds from Italy form the cohort it is ranked inside. 2,646 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 2,702 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 Valdicava 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 2,646.
