Red · Vale de Colchagua · Chile
Carmen Gran Reserva Carmenère
Scored from 3,237 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Chile (444 wines).
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What reviewers say
“2022 vintage in 2024 - Even as a young bottle, this Gran Reserva is a stellar value selection and great representation of a Chilean flagship varietal. We swiftly notice toasted oak, moss, tobacco, violet and dark fruit jam on the nose.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A red wine with an intense, violet-ruby colour. The bouquet is fruity with strong plum, cherry, and mulberry notes. The aroma also has a vegetable edge of ripe red pepper with jams, spinach, and chocolate. Barrel ageing lends this wine pleasant smoky and toast notes, bringing out its spices; texture is soft, with rounded tannins and medium body.
Carmen Gran Reserva Carmenère is a red from Vale de Colchagua, Chile, made from Carmenere.
The calibrated figure is built from 3,237 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,336 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 443 other reds from Chile form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Carmen Gran Reserva Carmenère 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 · Chile (444 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 3,237.
