Red · Rioja · Spain
Contino Reserva
Scored from 2,412 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Spain (435 wines).
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What reviewers say
“This is veeeery nicely put together & best Rioja I’ve had in a while. If all the TWS 150th wines are this good it’ll be a triumphant series. Brimming w deep red fruit: red cherry, raspberry there’s some blackberry & plum too.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ruby red, clean, middle layer, nose of red fruits and vanilla, intense. The palate is broad, tasty, with warmth and long aftertaste, very round and balanced.
Contino Reserva is a Spanish red from Rioja. The blend is Graciano, Garnacha and Tempranillo. At $41.39 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 434 other reds from Spain, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 2,412 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,462 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 Contino Reserva 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 · Spain (435 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 2,412.
