Red · Mendoza · Argentina
Matías Riccitelli The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree Malbec
Scored from 1,308 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Argentina (482 wines).
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What reviewers say
“A wine that was vinified by the son who watched his father at work for a long time (I'm told). Dark, powerful and intense fruit with notes of sour cherries, liquorice, walnut and juniper. Wonderfully elegant and juicy on the palate. Fruity sweetness and juice. Fine.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep purple in color, with beautiful aromas of wild dark fruits, vanilla and chocolate in the nose. This is a complex and rich vine with smooth ripe tannins and a long finish.
Matías Riccitelli The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree Malbec is a red from Mendoza, Argentina. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $19.54, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
481 other reds from Argentina form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,308 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,349 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 Matías Riccitelli The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree Malbec 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 · Argentina (482 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 1,308.
