Red · Ribera del Duero · Spain
Pago del Cielo Celeste Crianza
Scored from 12,368 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Spain (435 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Med garnet. Nose: red cherry, red liquorice, red apple skin, vanilla, baking spices, cheese rind and fresh cement. Mouth: dry, med+ acidity, med grainy unripe tannin, med body, red apple skin, red cherry, cola, cinnamon, vanilla and wet gravel.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Dark cherry red with garnet highlights. Intense dark fruit aroma (wild blackberries, blueberry jam) with smoky and roasted (coffee) notes against a wonderfully elegant oaky backdrop. A serious wine with juicy tannins, velvety and round thanks to the perfume of oak aging (dried plums).
Pago del Cielo Celeste Crianza is a red from Ribera del Duero, Spain, made from Tempranillo. At $22.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
434 other reds from Spain form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 12,368 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 12,770 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 Pago del Cielo Celeste Crianza 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 12,368.
