Red · Mendoza · Argentina
Catena Malbec
Scored from 8,593 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Argentina (482 wines).
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Tasting profile
Reviewers describe a smooth, rich Malbec with ruby color and fruit-forward aromas, showing both elegance and power. The body is structured with round, fine tannins and a long finish, well-integrated alcohol, and a character that balances lightness with depth.
Synthesized from 8,593Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Excelente vinho, aromas frutados. Na boca o destaque fica por conta da maciez e da potência de seus taninos finíssimos que faz com que os 14, 5% de álcool passem despercebidos.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Catena Malbec is a red from Mendoza, Argentina.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 481 other reds from Argentina, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 8,593 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 8,842 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 Catena Malbec 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 · Argentina (482 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 8,593.
