Red · Rioja · Spain
Marqués de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial Tinto
Scored from 6,668 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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What reviewers say
“It is all the time lively wine. But now is time for drinking, it has not a potential for longer ageing.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Intense cherry colour. Its nose exhibits an aromatic intensity of red fruits, floral notes of truffles, incense and spicy touches. Satin texture. Strength, elegant bouquet, fruity intensity, and impeccable balance.
Marqués de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial Tinto is a red from Rioja, Spain, made from Tempranillo. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $268, which puts the bottle in the $120-and-up band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 435 Spanish reds. The calibrated figure is built from 6,668 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 6,831 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 Marqués de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial Tinto 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 6,668.
