Red · Douro · Portugal
Quinta de Valbom Reserva
Scored from 116 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
“Dark cloudy crimson with red edges and thick red legs ( claimed 13.5% feels way too low ). Nice nose of dark red fruits - blackberry, red currant - and some herbal notes of menthol and tobacco. Dry with lots of alcohol and acid, and suppressed but tightly wound tannins. Flavours of dark red fruits - again red currant, sweet beetroot and plum - and some savoury hints of smoke and mushroom. Medium to full body and long length. A fine example of Douro red.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Douro in Portugal, Quinta de Valbom Reserva is a red.
The calibrated figure is built from 116 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 123 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 350 other reds from Portugal, 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 Quinta de Valbom 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 116.
