Red · Rioja · Spain
Sierra Cantabria Gran Reserva
Scored from 963 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Spain (435 wines).
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What reviewers say
“92 pts | 🍇 mainly Tempranillo blended with a small amount of Graciano from 🇪🇸 San Vicente de la Sonsierra in Rioja. Aged for 24 months in 🇺🇸 oak barrels, 25% new. Deep ruby color.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This wine shows character and identity. Elegant aroma, tasty red fruit on the palate with silky tannins and ripe.
Sierra Cantabria Gran Reserva is a red from Rioja, Spain. At $42.31 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band. It is made from Tempranillo.
963 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 970 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 434 other reds from Spain form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Gran 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 · Spain (435 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 963.
