Fortified · Jerez-Xérès-Sherry · España
Cota 45 Agostado
Scored from 75 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · España (41 wines).
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Tasting profile
An unfortified palo cortado-style sherry with rich aromas of butterscotch, honey, almonds, walnuts, and golden raisins, layered with oxidative and sweet tobacco notes. The palate is softer and lighter than expected, creamy and viscous with minerality, salinity, and a long, finely pungent finish.
Synthesized from 75Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“all the things you love about the smell and taste of sherry without the overpowering sweetness of it! 100% recommended butterscotch black raisins”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Cota 45 Agostado is a fortified wine from Jerez-Xérès-Sherry, Spain.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 41 Spanish fortified wines. 75 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 75 reviewers with at least two ratings each 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 Cota 45 Agostado 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 · España (41 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 75.
Cohort: Fortified · España
