Red · Rioja · España
Sierra Cantabria Finca el Bosque
Scored from 728 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · España (178 wines).
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Tasting profile
A deep, nearly opaque Rioja with ripe, glycerol-rich fruit and layered notes of cassis, licorice, tobacco, chocolate and truffle. Warm and silky on the palate, with gentle oak, earth, balsamic and toasted accents carrying through a long, powerful finish.
Synthesized from 728Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Un sabor cálido, sedoso muy largo en la boca con ligeros matices a roble y la tierra también podemos encontrar un ligero toque balsámico algunas notas tostadas al final .”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Sierra Cantabria Finca el Bosque is a red from Rioja, Spain. It is made from Tempranillo. It sits in the $120-and-up band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $200.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 178 Spanish reds. 728 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 754 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 Sierra Cantabria Finca el Bosque 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 · España (178 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 728.
