Red · Toro · Spain
Matsu El Picaro
Scored from 17,746 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Spain (435 wines).
Find this wine: view on Vivino · compare prices on Wine-Searcher
What reviewers say
“The wine has a deep ruby red color and an intense aroma of dark red fruits, such as blackberry, black cherry, and plum along with hints of vanilla, chocolate and toasted oak. On the palate, it is full-bodied, rich, and complex with firm Tano a that give it a nice structure.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This wine has a great robe and a profound color. It has an intense aroma of dark fruits such as blackberries and blueberries; mineral notes also appear, creating this fresh wine with complexity. In the mouth, this wine dominates the fruitful sensations and is a wine with body.
Matsu El Picaro is a red from Toro, Spain, made from Tinta De Toro. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $20.00, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 435 Spanish reds. The calibrated figure is built from 17,746 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 18,467 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 Matsu El Picaro 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 17,746.
