Red · Rioja Alavesa · Spain
Bodegas Faustino I Gran Reserva
Scored from 21,704 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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What reviewers say
“Mediun-deep ruby color and dominant raspberry, cherry, strawberry aromas with a bit of cedar, white pepper, and graphite. Medium body, medium-high acidity, and medium-high velvety tannim with fresh red berry notes of raspberry and also characteristically with cool peppermint.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Bodegas Faustino I Gran Reserva is a Spanish red from Rioja Alavesa. At $34.88 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band. The blend is Mazuelo, Graciano and Tempranillo.
The calibrated figure is built from 21,704 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 22,437 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 Bodegas Faustino I Gran Reserva 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 21,704.
