Red · Alentejano · Portugal
José Maria da Fonseca José de Sousa Alentejano
Scored from 2,582 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Portugal (351 wines).
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What reviewers say
“This smooth red wine has aromas of plums, notes of dried figs and hints of oak, vanilla and chocolate. Its palate is fruity, sweet and pleasant. It shows good acidity, very noticeable tannins. 옅은 자주색을 띠며, 무화과, 산딸기, 초코렛과 같은 풍미가 납니다.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Partially fermented in giant clay amphorae, the wine is made from grapes grown in the granite soil of Monte da Ribeira in the Reguengos de Monsaraz, area of the Alentejo. This wine has a fruity aroma with notes of chocolate and tobacco, and a smooth palate with well-integrated tannins.
From Alentejano in Portugal, José Maria da Fonseca José de Sousa Alentejano is a red. It is made from Aragonez.
350 other reds from Portugal form the cohort it is ranked inside. 2,582 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 2,672 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 José Maria da Fonseca José de Sousa Alentejano 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 Red · Portugal (351 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 2,582.
