White · Douro · Portugal
CARM Maria de Lourdes Branco
Scored from 247 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Portugal (1,436 wines).
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Tasting profile
A velvety, elegant white blend of Gouveio, Viosinho, and Rabigato, showing bright acidity, ripe fruit, and a subtle touch of wood on a long, satisfying finish. Best served well-chilled, it drinks fresh and food-friendly while still carrying real structure and depth.
Synthesized from 247Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Hedonistic Portuguese wine. Velvety, sumptuous and elegant. Local grapes perfectly blended - Gouveio, Viosinho, Rabigato. Big wine - think Montrachet.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
CARM Maria de Lourdes Branco is a white from Douro, Portugal.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,435 other whites from Portugal, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 247 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 255 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 CARM Maria de Lourdes Branco 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 White · Portugal (1,436 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 247.
