Fortified · Madeira · Portugal
H. M. Borges Verdelho Madeira 15 Years Old
Scored from 26 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Portugal (1,422 wines).
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Tasting profile
A complex, off-dry Madeira showing pronounced dried fruit (raisin, apricot, fig) layered with caramel, honey, and toasted nuts like pecan and Brazil nut. Medium-bodied with high acidity that balances the sweetness, leading to a long, nutty finish.
Synthesized from 26Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Complex, rich and interesting Nutty, almost lemon and acidic fore taste followed by developing taste of deepening nut, honey”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
H. M. Borges Verdelho Madeira 15 Years Old is a fortified wine from Madeira, Portugal.
Only 26 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 26 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,421 other fortified wines from Portugal, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 H. M. Borges Verdelho Madeira 15 Years Old 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 · Portugal (1,422 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 26.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
