Red · Agrelo · Argentina
Catena Zapata Estiba Reservada
Scored from 1,551 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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What reviewers say
“Maravilhoso vinho. Rubi intenso. Presença de madeira em equilíbrio. Frutas negras como ameixas pretas madura. Final longo e persistente.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A deep violet colour with red ruby hues. The nose is intense, with complex cedar, ripe red cassis, tobacco and sweet spice. On the palate, a sweet, soft entry leads to a rich wine packed with red fruit and subtle black pepper and eucalyptus flavours. Finishes long with round, silky tannins.
Catena Zapata Estiba Reservada is an Argentine red from Agrelo. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $608, which puts the bottle in the $120-and-up band. The blend is Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,551 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,606 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 482 Argentine reds.
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 Zapata Estiba Reservada 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 1,551.
