Red · Lujan de Cuyo · Argentina
Belasco de Baquedano Llama Old Vine Malbec
Scored from 3,070 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Argentina (482 wines).
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What reviewers say
“It’s a great wine for the price. For under $20 Canadian you can’t go wrong. Very intense nose right when I opened the bottle. Very fruit forward wine with cherry plum and a bit of blackberry coming through from the first sip.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep purplish ruby color, its expansive red-fruit bouquet, and its intense yet docile and fleshy taste plus filling, silky palate.
From Lujan de Cuyo in Argentina, Belasco de Baquedano Llama Old Vine Malbec is a red. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $16.79.
481 other reds from Argentina form the cohort it is ranked inside. 3,070 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 3,177 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Belasco de Baquedano Llama Old Vine Malbec 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 · Argentina (482 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 3,070.
