White · Rías Baixas · Spain
Fefiñanes 1583 Albariño de Fefiñanes
Scored from 883 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Spain (1,204 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Med golden color. Nose of gooseberry, orange zest, beeswax, honey, stewed apple. Golden apple, stewed apple, hints of gooseberry, pear, orange zest, honey, minerals, cream. Med+ body, med+ to high acidity, med+ finish. Albariño fermented and shortly aged in french barrique.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Lovely straw yellow, clean and bright in colour, its nose is reminiscent of ripe crystallized fruit, lush forests, distant spices. The palate is tasty, elegant enveloping and oily, with the balance of old familiar settings.
Fefiñanes 1583 Albariño de Fefiñanes is Albarino grown in Rías Baixas, bottled as a white. At $39.96 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,204 Spanish whites. The calibrated figure is built from 883 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 902 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 Fefiñanes 1583 Albariño de Fefiñanes 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 White · Spain (1,204 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 883.
