Red · Uco Valley · Argentine
Susana Balbo Signature Malbec
Scored from 5,223 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Argentine (7 wines).
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What reviewers say
“# houseredcompetition continues @[1|483320|Buck] This is a nice Malbec at a nice price My only complaint for the house red was that it did benefit from a decant to let the floral character shine. So ❎ on pop and pour. Gotta have criteria 😉.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Intense purple colour with aromas of blackberry, black cherry framed by hints of spice and mint. Featured flavours are repeated on the palate and harmoniously combined with ripe plum and subtle notes of vanilla, bitters weet chocolate and mint on the finish. This wine is full-bodied, velvety with a pleasant lingering finish.
Susana Balbo Signature Malbec is a red from Uco Valley, Argentina. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $27.49, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
5,223 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 5,366 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 6 other reds from Argentina 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 Susana Balbo Signature Malbec 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 · Argentine (7 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 5,223.
