Red · Mendoza · Argentina
Estancia Mendoza Malbec
Scored from 1,162 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Argentina (482 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Una primera producción de esta variedad elaborada en el corazón de los Montes de Toledo, un exquisito prototipo/experimento, de la cooperativa Montes Norte, color burdeos oscuro, casi negro, potencia aromatica a frutas negras, picotas, ciruela madura, final a mora, carnoso, potente, evidentes taninos, con un final especiado, pimienta de Jamaica, que tiende un poco dulce pero suave,elegante, y largo posgusto. Ha salido un gran vino a un precio espectacular”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has aromas of red fruits, herbs and a touch of new wood.The palate reveals her body and solid structure. Excellent with red meats in general, well-seasoned pasta.
Estancia Mendoza Malbec is an Argentine red from Mendoza.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 481 other reds from Argentina, not against the corpus as a whole. 1,162 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 1,208 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Estancia Mendoza Malbec 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 · Argentina (482 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 1,162.
