Red · Rioja · Spain
Marqués de Riscal Reserva
Scored from 47,267 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
“Deep ruby body, with aromas of dark berries, toasted coconut, forest floor, and very slight dill in an inviting sense.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Intense black-cherry colour and hardly any signs of evolution. Expressive aromas on the nose with notes of liquorice, cinnamon, black pepper and fruit. On the palate, good backbone and lovely, polished tannins. Persistent finish.
Marqués de Riscal Reserva is a red from Rioja, Spain. It is made from Tempranillo. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $21.29, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
47,267 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 49,394 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 434 other reds from Spain, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 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 47,267.
