Red · Uco Valley · Argentina
Finca el Origen Mountain Character Reserva Malbec
Scored from 1,173 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
“Finca El Origen is the Argentinian winery of the Santa Carolina Wine Brands winery cluster, the 4th most important group in Chile, volume-wise. This is an example of Uco Valley Malbec showing all the hallmarks of high-altitude Malbec at the foothills of the Andes Mountain range.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Uco Valley in Argentina, Finca el Origen Mountain Character Reserva Malbec is a red. At $20.00 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 482 Argentine reds. 1,173 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 1,192 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 Finca el Origen Mountain Character Reserva 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 1,173.
