Fortified · Montilla-Moriles · Spanien
Alvear Criadera /A
Scored from 37 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Spanien (54 wines).
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Tasting profile
An opulent, full-bodied fortified wine showing deep caramel color and an aromatic nose of hazelnut, dried fruit, citrus zest, and perfumed wood. The palate is unctuous yet dry, with pronounced salinity, toasted nuts, raisin, and honeyed notes carrying into a long, lingering finish.
Synthesized from 37Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Bebido con Joaquín de Meridiano Perdido en las Camachas. La botella la trajo Manuel Jiménez…. Ya no queda criadera A”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Alvear Criadera /A is a fortified wine from Montilla-Moriles, Spain.
Only 37 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 37 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track. 53 other fortified wines from Spain form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Alvear Criadera /A 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 Fortified · Spanien (54 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 37.
Cohort: Fortified · Spanien
