Fortified · Porto · Portugal
Martha's 40 years Old Tawny Port
Scored from 27 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Portugal (1,422 wines).
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Tasting profile
An intense, mellow tawny showing raisins, dried figs, walnut, marcipan and vanilla, with honey, dates, caramel and orange peel accents lifted by hints of brandy, cola syrup and cigar box. Full-bodied and thick yet round and soft, well-balanced and unusually smooth rather than spirity, with a warming, almost melting finish.
Synthesized from 27Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Intense nose of raisins, dried figs, brandy soaked walnuts, cola syrup, orange peel and a touch of cigar box. Immensely thick and burned. Great balance and structure. Very fine. 96p”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Martha's 40 years Old Tawny Port is a fortified wine from Porto, Portugal.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,422 Portuguese fortified wines. Only 27 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 27 reviewers with at least two ratings 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 Martha's 40 years Old Tawny Port 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 Fortified · Portugal (1,422 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 27.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
