Fortified · Madeira · Portugal
Barbeito 10 Years Old Reserve Sercial Madeira
Scored from 277 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Portugal (1,422 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Goudgeel, groene schijn in de waterrand, helder, dikke benen In de neus, gekonfijte citrus, limoen , roze pompelmoes, gekonfijte sinaasappel, licht kruidig, kardemkn, kruidnagel, accadia honing, maar ook een frisheid, ietwat ziltig In de mond aanzet met veel finesse, rijp fruit, …”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Greenish and golden colour. Aromas of dried fruits, pine and raisins. Mineral and fresh palate, long finish.
Barbeito 10 Years Old Reserve Sercial Madeira is a Portuguese fortified wine from Madeira.
277 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 280 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 1,421 other fortified wines 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 Barbeito 10 Years Old Reserve Sercial Madeira 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 · Portugal (1,422 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 277.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
