Red · Tupungato · Argentina
Altosur Malbec
Scored from 3,482 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
“LastBottle: alpine flowers of lilac and violet before things get dark -- beefy and berry driven. Smoky pepper, cigar box, vanilla, cocoa powder, blackberries, raspberries, red currants, cherry and plum...”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Attractive red color with violet hues. Aromas of intense ripe fruit: cherries, blackberries, blueberries, and fresh plums, combined with spicy and floral hints. In the mouth the sweet and round tannins increase its fruit sensation and balance. Wine of good intensity, concentration and long after taste.
Altosur Malbec is an Argentine red from Tupungato. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $18.09, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 482 Argentine reds. The calibrated figure is built from 3,482 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,620 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 Altosur 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 3,482.
