Fortified · Jerez-Xérès-Sherry · Espagne
Valdespino Palo Cortado Vintage Sherry Macharnudo Alto Single Vineyard
Scored from 11 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Espagne (129 wines).
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Tasting profile
An elegant, complex Palo Cortado with a dark amber color and aromas of roasted almonds, hazelnuts, toffee, dried fruit, and fine wood, layered with herbal and briny notes. The palate is dry and full-bodied yet balanced, with a silky texture, lively acidity, generous alcohol, and a remarkably long, sophisticated finish.
Synthesized from 11Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“De lo mejor que he probado entre los vinos generosos del Marco de Jerez. Un regalo del tiempo, la uva palomino y ese maravilloso error que hace que sea un palo cortado.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Valdespino Palo Cortado Vintage Sherry Macharnudo Alto Single Vineyard is a Spanish fortified wine from Jerez-Xérès-Sherry.
128 other fortified wines from Spain form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 11 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 11 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track.
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 Palo Cortado Vintage Sherry Macharnudo Alto Single Vineyard 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 · Espagne (129 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 11.
Cohort: Fortified · Espagne
