Red · Mendoza · Argentina
Cuchillo de Palo Ojo de Buen Cubero Malbec
Scored from 76 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Argentina (482 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Color violeta profundo con ribetes azulados, de piernas medias y gran intensidad visual. En nariz es directo y expresivo, con aromas de ciruelas frescas, cerezas negras y frambuesas maduras, acompañadas por notas florales de violetas, un leve trazo especiado y un fondo terroso característico. En boca se presenta jugoso y equilibrado, con taninos suaves, acidez viva y un perfil frutal nítido. El final es medio, dejando recuerdos de fruta roja y un sutil eco mineral.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Mendoza in Argentina, Cuchillo de Palo Ojo de Buen Cubero Malbec is a red. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $29.95, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
481 other reds from Argentina form the cohort it is ranked inside. 76 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 76 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 Cuchillo de Palo Ojo de Buen Cubero Malbec 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 · Argentina (482 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 76.
