Fortified · Carcavelos · Portugal
Howard's Folly Casa Manoel Boullosa Quinta dos Pesos Vinho Generoso
Scored from 247 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 masterpiece fortified wine showing honey, nuts, orange blossom, and spice on a long, lingering finish, with reviewers comparing its richness to PX Sherry. Still lively and full of alcohol, it drinks soft and smooth - a liquoroso the locals call worth tasting on your knees.
Synthesized from 247Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Outstanding 100% mel, nozes , flor de laranjeira .. Especiarias ... Final longuíssimo !!'masterpiece”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Howard's Folly Casa Manoel Boullosa Quinta dos Pesos Vinho Generoso is a fortified wine from Carcavelos, 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 247 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 249 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 Howard's Folly Casa Manoel Boullosa Quinta dos Pesos Vinho Generoso 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 247.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
