Red · Loncomilla Valley · Chile
Carta Vieja Carmenère
Scored from 1,264 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
“Bacon fat, cassis, and charcoal on the nose. Two out of ten on the sweetness scale. Highly acidic. On the tongue, blackberry, cassis, orange peel, morello cherry, roasted pepper, tarragon, and mint.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has bright carmine colour with a blue background. Interesting development of aromas to wild black fruits, blackberries and red prunes, with some spicy notes. On the palate is silky, slightly sweet, with chocolate, toffee and mint notes. Creamy and elegant finish.
From Loncomilla Valley in Chile, Carta Vieja Carmenère is a red. At $12.66 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the under $15 band. It is made from Carmenere.
1,264 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 1,336 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 443 other reds from Chile, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Carta Vieja 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 1,264.
