Fortified · Napa Valley · United States
Matthiasson Sweet Vermouth
Scored from 16 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · United States (61 wines).
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Tasting profile
A sweet, lightly bitter vermouth with cloudy orange color and oily texture, showing aromas of bitter orange rind, apricot, raisin, caramel, herbs and nutty spice. Fruit-forward on the palate with blood orange, cherry and dates, balanced by fresh acidity and a long bitter finish that drinks well straight or in a Negroni or Manhattan.
Synthesized from 16Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Light, sweet, slightly bitter, and perfect for pairing with a stronger gin negroni or a rye manhattan”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Matthiasson Sweet Vermouth is an American fortified wine from Napa Valley.
Only 16 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 16 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 60 other fortified wines from the United States, 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 Matthiasson Sweet Vermouth 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 · United States (61 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 16.
Cohort: Fortified · United States
