Red · Ribera del Duero · Spain
Alión Ribera del Duero
Scored from 15,281 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Spain (435 wines).
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Tasting profile
Bright red in the glass with an intense yet smooth profile, this Ribera del Duero leads with dark cherry and threads of tobacco and chocolate, carried on a medium body where resonant oak and well-blended tannins add depth. Lively acidity sparkles through the finish, and reviewers note it rewards decanting an hour before serving.
Synthesized from 15,281Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Amazing. Simply Loved This Wine. Half The Bottle Was Enjoyed Decanted Almost Immediately After Opening. The Other Half Was enjoyed the Next Day. Both Experiences Were Delightful.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It appears with hints of roast from the grape and top-quality wood. On the palate, the sweetened tannins of the concentrated black fruits blend with the dry creamy tannins of the French oak. It is full of flavor, strong, fleshy and unfolds a truly suggestive range of tastes.
Alión Ribera del Duero is a red from Ribera del Duero, Spain, made from Tinto Fino. At $144 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
434 other reds from Spain form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 15,281 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 15,832 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 Alión Ribera del Duero 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 · Spain (435 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 15,281.
