Red · Elqui Valley · Chile
Falernia Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva
Scored from 194 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
“👁 tiefes Granatrot mit braunem Stich 👃🏼 Lakritze, Eiche, Eucalyptus, Minze, Holzkohle, Pflaume gedörrt, getrocknetes Obst, reife Kirschen … die Fruchtnoten sind hier nicht so vordergründig wie die Tertiären Aromen 👅 hoher Alkohol, angenehme Frucht, sehr süffig 💡 spannend finde ich, dass die Falernia-Weine geschmacklich eine gewisse Ähnlichkeit haben – sicher bedingt durch das besondere Klima mit heißen Tagen und kristallklaren kalten Nächten”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has ruby red colour, nose of red fruit and blackberry, spicy, full bodied with soft tannins. Great match with barbecue especially beef, lamb and pork.
From Elqui Valley in Chile, Falernia Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva is a red.
The calibrated figure is built from 194 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 201 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 443 other reds from Chile form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Falernia Cabernet Sauvignon 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 194.
