White · Alentejano · Portugal
Herdade de São Miguel Esquecido
Scored from 384 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Portugal (1,436 wines).
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Tasting profile
A complex, aromatic Arinto-driven white with a full, mouth-filling body and notes of honey and roasted nuts, balanced by bright acidity and a delicate almond bitterness on the finish. Reviewers describe it as fruity, unctuous, and surprisingly long, with a fine quality-to-price ratio.
Synthesized from 384Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Simplesmente surpreendente este vinho branco Alentejano varietal de Arinto garrafa 458 de 2500 Fabuloso vinho com uma excelente relação preço qualidade”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Herdade de São Miguel Esquecido is a Portuguese white from Alentejano.
384 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 389 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,435 other whites 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 Herdade de São Miguel Esquecido 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 White · Portugal (1,436 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 384.
