Fortified · Sanlúcar de Barrameda · Spain
Valdespino Deliciosa Manzanilla
Scored from 432 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Spain (401 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Solid and stunning, this Sherry from one of the leading houses of Golden triangle not only shows requiring qualities of the style (as ever representative of the basic line should do) but underlines them.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Valdespino Deliciosa Manzanilla is a fortified wine from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, made from Palomino.
400 other fortified wines from Spain form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 432 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 435 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Valdespino Deliciosa Manzanilla 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 · Spain (401 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 432.
Cohort: Fortified · Spain
