Red · Rioja · Spanien
Faustino Rivero Ulecia Silver Label Rioja Reserva
Scored from 509 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Spanien (96 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Nota: 4.0 ⭐ 🍇 Tempranillo 85% e Garnacha 15% DOCa Rioja - La Rioja, España 🇪🇸 Amadurecimento por 24 meses em barricas de carvalho americano Estágio mínimo de 12 meses em garrafa 👁 rubi médio 👃 intensidade média+, aroma de cereja vermelha, framboesa, alcaçuz, rosas secas, baunilha, piso florestal 👄 seco, acidez alta, taninos médios+, álcool médio, corpo médio+, intensidade média+, final médio+ Saúde a todos meus amigos do Vivino 🍷🥂🍾 Cheers to all my Vivino friends 🍷🥂🍾”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The palate is ample, silky tannins, well-balanced and very persistent in the mouth.
Faustino Rivero Ulecia Silver Label Rioja Reserva is a Spanish red from Rioja. The blend is Grenache Noir and Tempranillo.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 96 Spanish reds. The calibrated figure is built from 509 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 525 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 Faustino Rivero Ulecia Silver Label Rioja 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 · Spanien (96 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 509.
