Red · Alentejano · Portugal
Esporão Monte Velho Reserva
Scored from 83 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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What reviewers say
“Vinho tinto bem conseguido, com um perfil típico do Alentejo. Apresenta uma cor rubi intensa e aromas agradáveis a fruta madura, ameixa e ligeiras notas de especiarias e madeira. Na boca é equilibrado, com taninos macios, boa estrutura e uma acidez correta que lhe dá frescura.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Esporão Monte Velho Reserva is a red from Alentejano, Portugal, blended from Touriga Nacional, Aragonez, Trincadeira and Shiraz Syrah. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $22.42.
350 other reds from Portugal form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 83 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 84 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 Monte Velho 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 · 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 83.
