Red · Douro · Portugal
Alves de Sousa Vale da Raposa Reserva Tinto
Scored from 964 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
“Retornando a avaliação de um blend com uma sintonia muito agradável, temos Touriga Nascional / Touriga Franca e Tinta Cão … tudo muito harmonioso entre si, terroso de acidez elevada e taninos macios, vinho com teor alcoólico de 14.5 que já é uma realidade dos vinhedos da região d…”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ruby color. The intense currants, spice and dark chocolate aromas and married with an elegant French oak. Mouth very elegant, complex and engaging, with fine tannins, good freshness, sour cherries and a slight nuance of coffee, composing a set of great class and elegance.
Alves de Sousa Vale da Raposa Reserva Tinto is a Portuguese red from Douro. The blend is Touriga Nacional and Tinto Cao.
The calibrated figure is built from 964 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 998 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 350 other reds from Portugal, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Vale da Raposa Reserva 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 964.
