Red · Douro · Portugal
Nicolau de Almeida Quinta do Monte Xisto Tinto
Scored from 503 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Portugal (351 wines).
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Tasting profile
A full-bodied Douro red with vivid color, lifted raspberry and vanilla aromatics, and bright acidity that keeps it fresh on a long, mouth-filling palate. Reviewers single out its velvety texture and polished tannins, calling it elegant and well-balanced.
Synthesized from 503Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Grande vinho! Aveludado. Taninos de luxo. Acompanhou umas bochechas de porco estufadas. Categoria!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Bright and luminous in appearance, his nose foreshadows frankness, projecting us into the Fifth universe. The more we get involved we are surprised by new fruity and wild aromas, supported by an elegant and balanced structure.
Nicolau de Almeida Quinta do Monte Xisto Tinto is a Portuguese red from Douro. The blend is Souzao, Touriga Nacional and Touriga Francesa.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 350 other reds from Portugal, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 503 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 523 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 Nicolau de Almeida Quinta do Monte Xisto Tinto 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 · Portugal (351 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 503.
