Red · Rioja · Spain
Marqués de Riscal Barón de Chirel Reserva
Scored from 2,231 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
Dark cherry in color with aromas of ripe black fruit and smoky toast, this Rioja drinks full-bodied yet soft, showing notes of dark chocolate, plum, earth, and a touch of oak. Tannins are polished and the finish is long, concentrated, and persistent.
Synthesized from 2,231Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Prøvde denne etter ett tapas måltid. Vi hadde vinen fra 2000. dekandering og lufting. Nydelig vin.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Lovely black-cherry colour dark and deep-robed. Powerful aromatic intensity, in which the spicy, toasted character from the Allier oak stand out. Jammy dark-berried fruit. Fresh, creamy palate, smooth, elegant tannins and a long, balanced finish.
Marqués de Riscal Barón de Chirel Reserva is a red from Rioja, Spain, made from Tempranillo. At $125 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
The calibrated figure is built from 2,231 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,292 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 435 Spanish reds.
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 Riscal Barón de Chirel Reserva 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 2,231.
