White · Alentejano · Portugal
Fitapreta A Laranja Mecanica by Antonio Macanita
Scored from 776 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Portugal (1,436 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Alentejo experiment gone right! Macanita’s version of “clockwork orange” is delicious After first pressing, the grapes are left with their skins macerating in 10-15% of the must for 7 days. After this process, a second pressing is carried out Result is med gold colour.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Fitapreta A Laranja Mecanica by Antonio Macanita is a white from Alentejano, Portugal. It blends Fernao Pires, Antao Vaz, Arinto De Bucelas, Verdelho and Roupeiro.
1,435 other whites from Portugal form the cohort it is ranked inside. 776 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 794 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 Fitapreta A Laranja Mecanica by Antonio Macanita 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 · Portugal (1,436 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 776.
