Fortified · Jerez-Xérès-Sherry · Spain
Gonzalez-Byass Nectar Pedro Ximenez Sherry (Dulce)
Scored from 3,269 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Spain (401 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Un pêcher mignon ☺️ ! Qui résisterai à sa douceur infinie, à son nez de raisins confits, de figues et de dattes bien mûres, avec un retour réglissé à l’envie enveloppé dans du miel.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A very dark, intense mahogany color. Very sweet aromas of raisins and caramel, with hints of wood. Velvety and richly sweet on the palate, it is reminiscent of aged raisins and dates, with a long, vibrant finish.
From Jerez-Xérès-Sherry in Spain, Gonzalez-Byass Nectar Pedro Ximenez Sherry (Dulce) is a fortified wine. At $27.44 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 400 other fortified wines from Spain, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 3,269 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 3,355 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 Gonzalez-Byass Nectar Pedro Ximenez Sherry (Dulce) 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 Fortified · Spain (401 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 3,269.
Cohort: Fortified · Spain
