Red · Douro · Portugal
Alves de Sousa Estação Tinto
Scored from 344 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Portugal (351 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Castas: Tinta Roriz e Tinha Barroca. Maturação: tanques de aço inox. Cor: rubi com toques violáceos. Nariz: baunilha, frutas vermelhas maduras, pimenta e um toque herbáceo. Boca: amargor inicial, aflorando o doce posteriormente, frutado, taninos macios, acidez refrescante, corpo médio e final persistente. Um vinho bem feito, harmonioso e com boa estrutura, sem muita complexidade. Uma bela surpresa!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ruby color. Notes of ripe strawberries and black pepper, forming a nose quite appealing. Full-bodied, yet harmonious, full of fruit and great balance. Ends with good intensity.
Alves de Sousa Estação Tinto is a red from Douro, Portugal. It blends Tinta Barroca and Tinta Roriz.
344 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 353 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 350 other reds from Portugal 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 Alves de Sousa Estação Tinto 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 · Portugal (351 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 344.
