Fortified · Porto · Portugal
Smith Woodhouse 20 Year Old Tawny Porto
Scored from 100 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Portugal (1,422 wines).
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Tasting profile
A sweet, golden tawny showing pronounced caramel and toffee notes alongside a touch of citrus and a nutty finish. Reviewers describe it as round and light with the classic tawny aftertaste and clear cask character, pairing nicely with desserts like risalamande.
Synthesized from 100Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Love, love, love. Pure gold compared to other brands at the same Price. Round, light and sweet but still a lot of cask......”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Porto in Portugal, Smith Woodhouse 20 Year Old Tawny Porto is a fortified wine.
The calibrated figure is built from 100 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 102 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 1,421 other fortified wines from Portugal 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 Smith Woodhouse 20 Year Old Tawny Porto 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 Fortified · Portugal (1,422 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 100.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
