White · Monção e Melgaço · Portugal
Dona Paterna Alvarinho
Scored from 339 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Portugal (1,436 wines).
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What reviewers say
“4.1 Muito bom Alvarinho, que apesar de ser um clássico foi a primeira vez que o provei. E valeu bem a pena. Cor citrina com alguns laivos esverdeados, aroma com boa intensidade de fruta citrica e tropical. No palato confirma os aromas, num conjunto muito bem ligado, com nervo e tenso a meu gosto. No dia seguinte curiosamente notei fumo e algum pão torrado em evidência e o lado frutado a perder evidência. Bons anos pela frente mas dá desde já grande prazer.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Dona Paterna Alvarinho is a Portuguese white from Monção e Melgaço.
The calibrated figure is built from 339 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 345 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,435 other whites from Portugal, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Dona Paterna Alvarinho 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 White · Portugal (1,436 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 339.
