Red · Rioja · Spain
La Rioja Alta Rioja Gran Reserva 904
Scored from 12,198 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Spain (435 wines).
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Tasting profile
A classic, elegant old-school Rioja with the hallmark balance of power and softness, showing pronounced vanilla alongside secondary notes of citrus, mushroom, spice, and damp forest. Reviewers describe it as evolved yet still lively with acidity, making it remarkably smooth and easy to drink.
Synthesized from 12,198Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Espetáculo de vinho! Tempranillo típico, evoluído, muito elegante no nariz, aromas secundários mas com acidez sificiente para mais algum tempo na adega.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Rioja in Spain, La Rioja Alta Rioja Gran Reserva 904 is a red. At $103 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $60–120 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 435 Spanish reds. 12,198 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 12,467 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 La Rioja Alta Rioja Gran Reserva 904 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 · Spain (435 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 12,198.
