Fortified · Madeira · Portugal
Henriques & Henriques Bual 15 Years Old Madeira
Scored from 71 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, balanced Madeira showing dried figs, nuts, orange peel, and caramel, with spice and earthy depth threaded through an amber, oxidative core. Off-dry rather than overtly sweet, with well-integrated alcohol and bright acidity that lend freshness and a gentle savory-salty finish.
Synthesized from 71Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Gorgeous. Amazing depth of flavour & character, distinctively sweet, nutty & earthy but with an exquisite balance of acidity.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Madeira in Portugal, Henriques & Henriques Bual 15 Years Old Madeira is a fortified wine.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,422 Portuguese fortified wines. 71 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 72 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 Henriques & Henriques Bual 15 Years Old Madeira 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 71.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
