Fortified · Jerez-Xérès-Sherry · Espagne
Bodegas Ximénez-Spínola Finest Old Harvest Medium
Scored from 557 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Espagne (129 wines).
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Tasting profile
An amber sherry with a complex, intense nose of bitter almond, walnut, caramelized hazelnut, citrus orange, light saline and subtle sweet spice, leading to a silky palate where nuts, toasty and saline notes return alongside honeyed sweetness and a very long finish. Dry yet sweet in style, fresh and surprisingly drinkable despite its strength.
Synthesized from 557Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Como todos los vinos y destilados de la bodega Ximénez Spínola, este old harvest es excepcional.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Jerez-Xérès-Sherry in Spain, Bodegas Ximénez-Spínola Finest Old Harvest Medium is a fortified wine.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 128 other fortified wines from Spain, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 557 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 562 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Ximénez-Spínola Finest Old Harvest Medium 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 · Espagne (129 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 557.
Cohort: Fortified · Espagne
