Red · Mendoza · Argentina
Tikal Natural Malbec - Syrah
Scored from 1,393 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Argentina (482 wines).
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What reviewers say
“De bodega creada por Ernesto Catena, que nació con la cosecha 2003, con tan sólo once pequeñas barricas, y en la que hasta hoy fueron distintos créateurs de vins los que han participaron en su elaboración.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Beautiful pomegranate color and aroma of fresh red cherries with light French oak undertones. The palate is fresh and lively with black raspberry and spiced mocha notes.
Tikal Natural Malbec - Syrah is an Argentine red from Mendoza.
1,393 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 1,435 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 482 Argentine reds.
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 Tikal Natural Malbec - Syrah 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 · Argentina (482 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 1,393.
