Red · Douro · Portugal
Real Companhia Velha Séries Bastardo
Scored from 87 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
“WineCup 🍷 🏆 2024 Quarterfinals. 🇪🇸 vs 🇵🇹 Format: double-blind, 20point scale, single-elimination. Wine #6, overall scoring #4. This was obviously the lightest shade of red we saw in the glass last night. Don’t be fooled, 14.5%abv BASTARDO!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Real Companhia Velha Séries Bastardo is a red from Douro, Portugal, made from Trousseau.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 351 Portuguese reds. The calibrated figure is built from 87 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 90 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 Real Companhia Velha Séries Bastardo 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 87.
