Red · Maipo Valley · Chile
Escudo Rojo Gran Reserva
Scored from 5,946 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
“Soft, warm and round. Deep and dark red color. Stylish nose of ripe black currants, tea leaves, mocha and minty whiffs. Ripe and sweet fruit, yet still fresh and balanced with a nice acidity underpinning the well extracted fruit.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The wine has a lovely colour, dense and deep with a slight ruby tint, and a full, generous nose that reveals attractive blackcurrant, liquorice and cherry brandy aromas with spicier touches of nutmeg. Round and rich on the palate, its chocolate, vanilla, caramel and pepper notes are underpinned by a stylish tannic structure, powerful but restrained. The long, full-bodied and expressive finish combines tannins refined by the maturing process with delicious and persistent fruit and roasted coffee flavours.
Escudo Rojo Gran Reserva is a Chilean red made from Cabernet Sauvignon. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $21.59. It is bottled in Maipo Valley.
5,946 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 6,166 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 443 other reds from Chile, 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 Escudo Rojo Gran Reserva 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 5,946.
