Fortified · Porto · Portugal
Pacheca White Port
Scored from 153 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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What reviewers say
“Nightcapping! Dipping into the reserve for a little indulgence to share w/ some soy roasted almonds. Serve this one well chilled for optimal taste! Golden amber colour, w/ citrus peel, roasted almonds, honey & raisiny on the👃 caramelized pineapple, dried stone fruit & vanilla apple pie 👄 mid weight sweetness cut w/ sharp acidity, some mid palate creaminess, bitter almonds on the finish w/ a lifted warming alcohol tone that lingers nicely. 3.8 roughly the same as before.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has a golden yellow color. The aroma feels a mix of notes of citrus fruits, roasted nuts and honey. In the mouth it is fresh, elegant with a slightly fatty / buttery finish.
Pacheca White Port is a fortified wine from Porto, Portugal, blended from Malvasia Fina, Viosinho, Gouveio and Codega Di Larinho.
The calibrated figure is built from 153 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 155 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,422 Portuguese fortified wines.
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 Pacheca White 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 153.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
