Red · Lissabon · Portugal
Quinta da Espiga Reserva
Scored from 71 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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What reviewers say
“Very juicy and quite oaky reserva from Lisboa. Smooth in the mouth with notes of oak, vanilla, black currant, ripe plum and ripe cherry. Good concentration in the fruit. Good level of smooth rankings. Warm mouth feel, quite bold. Somewhat simple and sweet. 3,6-3,7”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Beautiful black. Intense aromas of red and black fruits with chocolate and oak notes. In the mouth appears as fruity, rich and well structured. Soft tannins and balanced acidity, combined with a prolonged after taste and velvety.
Quinta da Espiga Reserva is a Portuguese red from Lissabon. The blend is Castelao, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz and Shiraz Syrah.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 351 Portuguese reds. The calibrated figure is built from 71 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 75 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 Quinta da Espiga Reserva 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 71.
