Red · Alentejano · Portugal
Esporão Alicante Bouschet
Scored from 237 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Portugal (351 wines).
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Tasting profile
A full-bodied, complex red showing ripe red and black fruit layered with leather, tobacco, vanilla, toasted oak, and spice, finishing balanced with firm tannins and lively acidity. Mature and intense yet approachably smooth, it pairs beautifully with strong cheeses and dark, slow-cooked meats.
Synthesized from 237Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Experienced in the winery paired with roast loin of black pig and chick pea stew. Wow, what a pairing. Full, mature and balanced.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Esporão Alicante Bouschet is a Portuguese red from Alentejano. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $53.95, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
350 other reds from Portugal form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 237 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 239 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 Esporão Alicante Bouschet 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 · Portugal (351 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 237.
