Red · Amarone della Valpolicella Classico · Italy
Zenato Amarone della Valpolicella Classico
Scored from 12,678 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
Rich and intense with high alcohol, this Amarone shows baked dark fruit - figs, red plums, blackberry, and currants - layered with cocoa, cedar, spice, and a touch of musky leather, finishing on a honeyed note. Big yet soft and well balanced, it benefits from extended breathing time and rewards patient cellaring.
Synthesized from 12,678Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Extreme tasty whine. Be aware of the thickness and the richness. Well balanced flavours, but perhaps a bit pricy. One of the 5 best wines I ever tasted.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Zenato Amarone della Valpolicella Classico is an Italian red from Amarone della Valpolicella Classico. It sits in the $60–120 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $64.99.
The calibrated figure is built from 12,678 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 13,121 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 946 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 Zenato Amarone della Valpolicella Classico 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 12,678.
