Red · Mendoza · Argentina
Ruca Malen Capítulo Dos Malbec
Scored from 164 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Argentina (482 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Ótimo malbec da Bodega Ruca Malen safra 2022! Vinho de coloração vermelha violeta intensa. Apresenta aromas de frutas frescas, frescas e notas florais como violeta e lavanda. Na boca, é aveludado, com notas de framboesas e cerejas maduras. É também amplo, macio e com taninos finos. Com notas de especiarias e grafite que lhe conferem complexidade, é um vinho elegante, equilibrado e com um final persistente. Envelhecido por 12 meses em barricas de carvalho. Recebeu 93 pts James Suckling.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ruca Malen Capítulo Dos Malbec is a red from Mendoza, Argentina.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 481 other reds from Argentina, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 164 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 166 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 Ruca Malen Capítulo Dos Malbec 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 · Argentina (482 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 164.
