Red · Sierras de Málaga · España
Los Aguilares Pago El Espino
Scored from 1,681 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · España (178 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Winery's flagship blend of Petit Verdot, Tempranillo & Syrah. Aged 15m in FRo. Complex, developping, outstanding QPR! Med.intense ruby, purple hue & rim at abv.14,5%. Intense, evolving N: vanilla cookies, raspberry, cherry, aronia, allspice, clove, pine trees, violet.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Its balance and elegance, a veritable symphony of fruit, fragrances and lightly toasted spices. A perfect natural acidity that produces a long taste in the mouth that at the same time is smooth and fresh.
Los Aguilares Pago El Espino is a red from Sierras de Málaga, Spain, made from Petit Verdot.
177 other reds from Spain form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,681 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,745 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 Los Aguilares Pago El Espino 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 · España (178 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 1,681.
