Red · Rioja · Spain
Benjamin de Rothschild - Vega Sicilia Macán
Scored from 4,120 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Spain (435 wines).
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Tasting profile
A 100% Tempranillo Rioja showing ripe fruit, hints of hazelnut and sweet plum, and well-integrated barrel notes in a balanced, classic style. Reviewers call it an exceptional, age-worthy red that pairs naturally with hearty Spanish fare like cocido.
Synthesized from 4,120Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Es el mejor vino que he tomado en los dos últimos años. Algo caro pero aun asi la relación calidad precio sigue siendo apropiada. Sin duda el mejor Rioja de mi vida.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Benjamin de Rothschild - Vega Sicilia Macán is a Spanish red from Rioja.
The calibrated figure is built from 4,120 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 4,224 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 435 Spanish reds.
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 Benjamin de Rothschild - Vega Sicilia Macán 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 · Spain (435 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 4,120.
