Fortified · Madeira · Portugal
Henriques & Henriques Sercial 15 Years Old Madeira
Scored from 83 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
Amber to copper in the glass with high acidity driving a full-bodied, off-dry character, this Sercial layers candied orange peel, dried apple, raisin and prune with walnut, hazelnut, toffee, caramel and warm spice. Concentrated and well-balanced, it finishes long on nutty, lightly smoky notes.
Synthesized from 83Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Amber colour, medium+ intense aromas of candied orange peel, baked apple, caramel, toffee, almond, hazelnut, cinnamon. Medium sweet, high acidity, high alcohol, full body with pronounced flavours as on the nose. Finish is long, wine is powerful and well balanced”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Henriques & Henriques Sercial 15 Years Old Madeira is a fortified wine from Madeira, Portugal.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,421 other fortified wines from Portugal, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 83 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 83 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 Henriques & Henriques Sercial 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 83.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
