Red · Uco Valley · Argentina
BenMarco Malbec
Scored from 5,528 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
“Back to Back BenMarco 2019/2020. As I said in my 2019 TNs, I prefer the 2019 as a much cooler vintage. This 2020 is more hot and warm wine, more Mendoza-like although from one of the coolest part - Los Chacayes.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Beautiful purple color with perfumed aromas of ripe red fruits and roasted coffee beans. It is lush, full-bodied and penetrating on the palate with loads of chewy, currant jam flavors, bright acidity, and a touch of grip on the almost savory finish.
From Uco Valley in Argentina, BenMarco Malbec is a red. At $21.77 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 481 other reds from Argentina, not against the corpus as a whole. 5,528 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 5,699 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 BenMarco 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 5,528.
