Fortified · Setúbal · Portugal
Horácio Simões Moscatel Roxo
Scored from 282 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 sweet dessert Moscatel Roxo with a syrupy yet clean texture, layering caramel apple, apricot, orange, and plum aromatics over a nutty, fruity palate. Reviewers consistently praise it as one of the finest examples of the style.
Synthesized from 282Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“O melhor moscatel roxo, mas é segredo... Vinho fantástico com um doce paladar. Os melhores anos: 1998, 2003 e 2004. Superior a alguns lotes antigos do José Maria da Fonseca! A caixa antiga em cartão canelado era fantástica.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Horácio Simões Moscatel Roxo is a Portuguese fortified wine from Setúbal.
282 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 291 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 1,421 other fortified wines from Portugal form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Horácio Simões Moscatel Roxo 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 282.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
