Fortified · Malmsey Madeira · Portugal
Blandy's Madeira Colheita Malmsey Madeira (Single Harvest)
Scored from 522 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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Tasting profile
A rich, sweet Madeira showing dried fruit, apricot, prune, toffee, caramel, and notes of hazelnut, walnut, dark chocolate, and coffee. The palate is intense and complex yet balanced by lively acidity and well-integrated alcohol, with a long, lingering finish.
Synthesized from 522Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Um Madeira espetacular! Marrom. Com notas de chocolate e caramelo com uma acidez combinada com dulcor muito agradável. O final é muito longo e prazeroso.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Blandy's Madeira Colheita Malmsey Madeira (Single Harvest) is a Portuguese fortified wine from Malmsey Madeira.
522 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 528 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,422 Portuguese fortified wines.
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 Blandy's Madeira Colheita Malmsey Madeira (Single Harvest) 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 522.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
