Red · Central Valley · Chile
Casa Rivas Carmenère
Scored from 361 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
“Este Carmene del 2018 estando en 2019, es ta muy bueno, me. Encanta el Carmene para Antea o después de comer. Como para picar algo. Este es un Reserva, Casa Rivas. Buen color, se me di una 3 piernas en la copa.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Bright cherry red. Clean bouquet with notes of red berries and spices typical of the varietal, subtle smoked and paprika, and hints of coconut and vanilla. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied with smooth tannins and a pleasant finish.
Casa Rivas Carmenère is a Chilean red from Central Valley. The grape is Carmenere.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 443 other reds from Chile, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 361 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 381 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 Casa Rivas 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 361.
