Red · Yecla · España
Castaño Hécula Monastrell
Scored from 5,337 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · España (178 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Très belle robe d'une belle intensité, bourgogne et bien texturée. Son nez est très complexe. Il sent la chaire de cerises mûres, le bois, la terre, le cumin, la fumée et un peu le cuir.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep purple colour with rich elegant aromas of blueberries, black ripe raspberries and liquorice with a subtle touch of white flowers on the background and a chalky character. Full-bodied, with an inviting richness and soft fruitiness which is not at all covered by its well integrated wooden notes in an extremely well-balanced red.
Castaño Hécula Monastrell is a red from Yecla, Spain. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $7.47, which puts the bottle in the under $15 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 5,337 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 5,470 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 177 other reds from Spain 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 Castaño Hécula Monastrell 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 · España (178 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 5,337.
