Fortified · Porto · Portugal
Dow's Late Bottled Vintage Port
Scored from 2,552 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Portugal (1,422 wines).
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What reviewers say
“A Tier1 Port!! From memory my late Father gave me this bottle around the the turn of the millennium! It was stored in 4 houses (including a friend’s house after a fire!! long story) and it’s probably accurate to say that all those conditions were far from ideal.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Sumptuous dark chocolate and morello cherry character with opulent finish. This wine is full-bodied, rich but perfectly balanced with soft peppery tannins and with a fine acidity that ensure perfect balance on the palate.
Dow's Late Bottled Vintage Port is a Portuguese fortified wine from Porto. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $19.30. The blend is Touriga Franca and Tinta Roriz.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,422 Portuguese fortified wines. The calibrated figure is built from 2,552 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,600 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 Dow's Late Bottled Vintage Port 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 · Portugal (1,422 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 2,552.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
