Red · Salento · Italien
Vallone Special Selection Appassimento
Scored from 185 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
“Vallone is famous both in Puglia 🇮🇹 and beyond for their wine Gratticiaia - and this Appassimento seems to be its delicious and affordable 💸 little brother. 100% Negroamaro 🍇 which are dried after harvest to concentrate flavor and power. Dark purple in the glass.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Vallone Special Selection Appassimento is an Italian red from Salento. The grape is Undefined.
The calibrated figure is built from 185 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 187 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 288 other reds from Italy, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Vallone Special Selection Appassimento 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 185.
