White · Alentejano · Portugal
São Miguel do Sul Branco
Scored from 277 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Portugal (1,436 wines).
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What reviewers say
“White dry wine, a blend of Antau Vacher, Viognier and Encruzado grape varieties from the Portuguese Alentejo region. The wine has a pale straw color with lemon highlights. The bright aroma reveals juicy notes of pear, fresh herbs and wildflowers. The taste is light, with crisp citrus acidity, notes of white fruit and a fresh, energetic finish. It will perfectly complement fish, seafood and sushi dishes.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Yellow citrus hue with greenish hints. Complex aroma of tropical fruit, minerals and floral notes. Strong personality, intense and full with a good acidity.
São Miguel do Sul Branco is a white from Alentejano, Portugal. It blends Viognier, Encruzado and Antao Vaz.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,435 other whites from Portugal, not against the corpus as a whole. 277 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 286 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 São Miguel do Sul Branco 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 White · Portugal (1,436 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 277.
