Fortified · Madeira · Portugal
Henriques & Henriques Sercial Madeira
Scored from 73 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, amber-hued Sercial with a bouquet of walnuts, almonds, marmalade, caramel, and baked apple, joined by dried fruit notes of apricot, figs, and dates. Barely sweet on the palate, it shows marzipan, coffee, high acidity, and oxidative character, with strong astringency and a long, lingering, slightly bitter finish.
Synthesized from 73Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Quando abri só por ver que não estava estragado foi uma alegria, beber um vinho que quando nascemos já tinha metade da nossa idade é sempre especial :D”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Henriques & Henriques Sercial Madeira is a fortified wine from Madeira, Portugal.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,422 Portuguese fortified wines. The calibrated figure is built from 73 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 73 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 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 73.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
