Red · Yecla · Spanien
Castaño Solanera Viñas Viejas
Scored from 2,931 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Spanien (96 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Spain was tonight’s theme An amazing array of delights with there being the rare event of having no “wine no2” in the line up All interesting and different in their own way, everyone pushed the boat out in their search A sneaky Albariño from Smith and Sheth was allowed due to var…”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Pure and elegant bouquet of cinnamon, berries, dried fruit and a mineral touch. Silky on the palate, with dried pears and raspberries harmoniously assembled. An aftertaste that defies gravity.
From Yecla in Spain, Castaño Solanera Viñas Viejas is a red. It is made from Mourvedre. It sits in the under $15 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $7.80.
2,931 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 2,999 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 95 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 Solanera Viñas Viejas 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 · Spanien (96 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 2,931.
