Fortified · Madeira · Portugal
Cossart Gordon Bual Madeira Single Harvest
Scored from 135 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Portugal (1,422 wines).
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Tasting profile
An amber-toned dessert Madeira showing dried fruit, fig, date, apricot, raisin and walnut alongside caramel, toffee and vanilla, with a touch of prune and almond. Medium-sweet and well balanced, it finishes with a lively tartness and a spicy lift that pairs naturally with desserts.
Synthesized from 135Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Best madeira wine tasted. Dried fruit and vanilla on the nose. Caramel and tartiness on the palate with an nice spicy finish! Had to buy a bottle”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Madeira in Portugal, Cossart Gordon Bual Madeira Single Harvest is a fortified wine.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,422 Portuguese fortified wines. The calibrated figure is built from 135 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 135 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 Cossart Gordon Bual Madeira Single Harvest 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 Fortified · Portugal (1,422 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 135.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
