Red · Mendoza · Argentina
Alamos Selección Malbec
Scored from 3,539 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Argentina (482 wines).
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What reviewers say
“3.8 🌟 like my V friends. Flying to 🇦🇷 now for this bold Malbec (heard it’s Malbec 🎼 Monday @Aaron Blazer) This lovely 2017 red liquid from Mendoza starts off really boldly on the 👃🏼 (even with little decant) with fearless dark berries and sweet /burnt tobacco.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Alamos Seleccion Malbec presents a deeply dark violet color with blackish tones. The nose is full of ripe black fruits with floral tones and touches of leather, vanilla, and spice. The mouthfeel is full yet supple, with juicy black raspberry, black cherry and black currant fruit layered with notes of violets, black pepper and anis. The finish is long and lingering, with soft, velvety tannins and bright, refreshing acidity.
Alamos Selección Malbec is an Argentine red from Mendoza. At $19.69 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 482 Argentine reds. 3,539 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 3,712 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 Alamos Selección Malbec 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 · Argentina (482 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 3,539.
