Red · Alentejo · Portugal
Malhadinha Nova Pequeno Joao
Scored from 188 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
“Um vinho vendido numa pequena garrafa com a marca de"Pequeno João", mas de pequeno não tem nada. Em taça, é um gigante límpido de intensidade alta com borda rubi médio e núcleo rubi escuro, com boa condição, desenvolve poderosos terciários de frutas negras em calda,cassis, notas defumadas de bacon, cx de charuto, seguidas por secundários de torrefação e chocolate amargo. Em boca é seco, acidez alta, taninos altos, notas de baunilha,corpo alto, álcool médio e um final maravilhoso e persistente.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Malhadinha Nova Pequeno Joao is a red from Alentejo, Portugal.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 350 other reds from Portugal, not against the corpus as a whole. 188 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 195 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 Malhadinha Nova Pequeno Joao 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 188.
