Red · Alentejano · Portugal
Esporão Monte Velho Tinto
Scored from 13,892 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
“Night out with my wife this sunday celebrating Valentine’s day at this cozy restaurant in RP. Paired well my wife’s pasta with codfish sauce as well my pasta filled with cheese & tomato sauce. Intense ruby red color with dark red reflexes.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Clear, deep ruby colour. Ripe berry fruits with some underlying oak complexity. Good depth of ripe fruit with a soft tannic structure.
Esporão Monte Velho Tinto is a Portuguese red from Alentejano. At $13.64 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the under $15 band. The grape is Shiraz Syrah.
The calibrated figure is built from 13,892 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 14,514 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 351 Portuguese reds.
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 Tinto 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 13,892.
