Red · Conca de Barberà · Spain
Familia Torres Grans Muralles
Scored from 971 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Spain (435 wines).
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Tasting profile
A beautifully structured, silky red with dark fruit, red berries, and leather alongside lactic notes, toasted coffee, vanilla, truffle, and a touch of mint and spice. Complex and elegant with good tannic balance, still young with room to evolve, and a natural match for grilled or roasted red meats.
Synthesized from 971Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Beautifully structured, silky, round with amazing dark fruit, lactic notes, toasted coffee, vanilla, truffles and minty. Complex, elegant.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A wine of beautifully dark opacity. Deep and displaying fascinating floral (purple iris) and fruit notes (sloe compote) Intense on the palate, sustained by firm tannins, and well defined by the aromatic notes imparted by the oak barrel (cocoa and licorice). An ideal accompaniment for typical Mediterranean-style roast and stewed meat dishes made with tomato and pepper sauces or cooked with traditional herbs and spices.
Familia Torres Grans Muralles is Carignane grown in Conca de Barberà, bottled as a red. At $162 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
The calibrated figure is built from 971 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 985 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 435 Spanish 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 Familia Torres Grans Muralles 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 · Spain (435 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 971.
