Red · Rioja · Spain
Marqués de Riscal Reserva XR
Scored from 2,030 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 powerful, full-bodied red with ruby color, intense oak presence, and aromas of red fruit and wood that reviewers consistently call excellent with red meats like pluma iberica and pata negra. Frutal and well-structured, it drinks as a reliable, crowd-pleasing Riscal at its price point.
Synthesized from 2,030Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Color rojo rubí , con un sabor en boca muy agradable y un aroma a frutos rojos y madera. Un muy buen vino ke volveré a beber sin dudarlo”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep and cherry red colour. Smoked, spicy aromas with black liquorice, ripe fruits and balsamic notes with good intensity. There is tension on the palate, youthfulness and creamy texture. The tannins are lively, polished and very fine.
Marqués de Riscal Reserva XR is a Spanish red from Rioja. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $36.79. The blend is Graciano and Tempranillo.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 435 Spanish reds. The calibrated figure is built from 2,030 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,059 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 Riscal Reserva XR 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 2,030.
