Red · Ribera del Duero · Spain
Dominio del Águila Pícaro Viñas Viejas
Scored from 3,263 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Spain (435 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Incredible value at well under $35, winemaker worked at Domaine de La Romanée-Counti AND Vega Sicilia group AND Bodegas Arzuaga-Navarro before settling with his own project here, 30 ha very old vines plus 5 ha of younger vines (average 50 yrs!) Deep burgundy color with funky nose…”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Dynamic and fresh wine that reflects the personality of the terroir. The nose highlights its pleasant aroma of red and black fruit with sweet and floral touches. Medium bodied, silky texture, is characterized by its fresh style with marked fruity notes, juicy tannins and a long, lingering finish.
Dominio del Águila Pícaro Viñas Viejas is a red from Ribera del Duero, Spain, made from Tempranillo. At $28.16 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 434 other reds from Spain, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 3,263 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,326 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 Dominio del Águila Pícaro Viñas Viejas 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 · Spain (435 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 3,263.
