White · Monção e Melgaço · Portugal
Anselmo Mendes Parcela Única Escolha
Scored from 983 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Portugal (1,436 wines).
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Tasting profile
A serious, top-tier Alvarinho with a rich, aromatic nose drawing comparisons to Meursault and Condrieu, leading into citrus aromas and a full, volumous palate. Reviewers highlight its fantastic acidity, clean finish, and fine balance between minerality and freshness.
Synthesized from 983Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Promete de nariz, não desaponta na boca. Um grande Alvarinho, espero poder voltar aprecia lo daqui a uns anos para ver como envelhece.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Elegant and extremely mineral with smoky nuances. Excellent structure and acidity. Long, very elegant finish with the delicacy of the Alvarinho variety.
Anselmo Mendes Parcela Única Escolha is Alvarinho grown in Monção e Melgaço, bottled as a white.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,435 other whites from Portugal, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 983 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 997 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 Anselmo Mendes Parcela Única Escolha 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 White · Portugal (1,436 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 983.
