White · Vinho Verde · Portugal
José Maria da Fonseca Twin Vines Vinho Verde
Scored from 726 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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What reviewers say
“What a great fun with this style of wine. My first Vinho Verde and it's a pure joy. The name Vinho Verde does not refer to the color of the wine but suggests that it is a young wine. From the north of Portugal and mostly made from Alvarinho grape.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
José Maria da Fonseca Twin Vines Vinho Verde is a white from Vinho Verde, Portugal. At $13.95 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the under $15 band. It blends Trajadura, Albarino and Riesling.
1,435 other whites from Portugal form the cohort it is ranked inside. 726 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 758 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 Twin Vines Vinho Verde 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 726.
