Fortified · Jerez-Xérès-Sherry · Spain
Valdespino Solera 1842 Oloroso VOS
Scored from 267 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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Tasting profile
A full-bodied, oxidatively aged Oloroso with a long finish, leaning dry despite a touch of sweetness, layered with dried fruit, raisin, coffee, toffee, vanilla, spice and old wood. Reviewers single out its complexity, depth and balance, calling it among the best Olorosos they've tasted.
Synthesized from 267Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“dry to off-dry, medium acidity, full body, high alcohol,long finish, old wood flavor, raisin,plune, toffee not only oxidation but also more concentration”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Jerez-Xérès-Sherry in Spain, Valdespino Solera 1842 Oloroso VOS is a fortified wine.
The calibrated figure is built from 267 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 271 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 400 other fortified wines from Spain 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 Valdespino Solera 1842 Oloroso VOS 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 267.
Cohort: Fortified · Spain
