Fortified · Sercial Madeira · Portugal
Blandy's Madeira Colheita Sercial Madeira
Scored from 88 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 powerful, dry Sercial with bracing acidity and aromas of hazelnut, candied fruit, smoky raisins, and orange citrus, drawing comparisons to an old whiskey on the palate. Round and nutty with a long finish, it works as an aperitif and pairs beautifully with spicy dishes, aged cheeses, and dried fruits.
Synthesized from 88Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Una mezcla de sabor deliciosa, es como sentir un buen whiskey al principio pero con la sutileza de un gran vino al final.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Sercial Madeira in Portugal, Blandy's Madeira Colheita Sercial Madeira is a fortified wine.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,421 other fortified wines from Portugal, not against the corpus as a whole. 88 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 88 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 Blandy's Madeira Colheita 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 88.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
