White · Monção e Melgaço · Portugal
Soalheiro Alvarinho
Scored from 9,836 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
“O melhor produtor da casta alvarinho de toda a península ibérica e um dos melhores do mundo, Soalheiro nesta safra de 2013 arrasa mais uma vez com muita mineralidade, invulgar sobriedade aromática e absurda elegância de sabor!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has citrus colour, aroma revels a classic Alvarinho Soalheiro, intense and tropical with mineral notes. 2015 harvest shows great aromatic equilibrium and taste elegant and intense.
Soalheiro Alvarinho is a white from Monção e Melgaço, Portugal, made from Albarino. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $24.00, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 9,836 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 10,168 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,436 Portuguese whites.
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 Soalheiro Alvarinho 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 9,836.
