Fortified · Madeira · Portugal
Cossart Gordon Single Harvest Special Madeira
Scored from 18 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 old Madeira that rewards patience, opening from a shy, spirited start into complex raisin and orange aromas with hints of chocolate, tobacco, and orange cream. Medium-bodied and only lightly sweet, it stays remarkably fresh, balanced by biting acidity and a long, persistent finish.
Synthesized from 18Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Impressionante per la sua freschezza nonostante gli anni”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Cossart Gordon Single Harvest Special Madeira is a fortified wine from Madeira, Portugal.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,421 other fortified wines from Portugal, not against the corpus as a whole. Only 18 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 18 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track.
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 Single Harvest Special Madeira 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 18.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
