Red · Maipo Valley · Chile
Cousiño-Macul Merlot
Scored from 306 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Chile (444 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Abriendo este Merlot 2018 en 2024. No me esperaría más para abrir esta añada. En copa bonito, buena densidad y color rubí, empezando a mostrar algo de dorado en las orillas. Limpio y brillante. Primera nariz agradable de alcohol y frutos rojos inmaduros.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep purple in colour, this Merlot showcases intense fruit aromas, where red plums and ripen raspberries stand out and mix with delicate hints of fresh herbs. It is a medium bodied wine, with soft tannins and black plum flavours, which are enriched with some mocha touches. In the palate, it feels round and it has a soft and pleasant end. Ideal to be enjoyed in its youth, but also has the structure to be cellared for 2 to 4 years.
Cousiño-Macul Merlot is a red from Maipo Valley, Chile. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $17.95, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 443 other reds from Chile, not against the corpus as a whole. 306 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 318 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 Cousiño-Macul Merlot 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 · Chile (444 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 306.
