Red · Douro · Portugal
CARM Reserva Tinto
Scored from 1,554 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Portugal (351 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Douro Blend, with Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Franca and Tinta Francisca, aged for 18 months in French and American oak barrels. Good body, prevalence of red and black fruits, spices and wood.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
An elegant and powerful red, with intense aromas and flavors of red berry, smoke, raspberry and spice that are supported by well-integrated tannins, with plenty of structure.
CARM Reserva Tinto is a Portuguese red from Douro. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $12.67, which puts the bottle in the under $15 band. The grape is Tinta Roriz.
350 other reds from Portugal form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,554 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,618 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 Reserva Tinto 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 · Portugal (351 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 1,554.
