Red · Ribera del Duero · Spain
Valdubon Ribera del Duero Roble
Scored from 2,009 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Spain (435 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Vivino tells me that I last rated Valdubón roble six years ago (the 2018 vintage in Feb 2020) and gave it a 4.0. I enjoyed this 2023 too, and I say it’s a 3.9.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Intense cherry-red colour with hints of ruby and mauve. Complex aromas with toasted oak well integrated with the fruit. Body well balanced between the fruit and the oak.
From Ribera del Duero in Spain, Valdubon Ribera del Duero Roble is a red. It is made from Tempranillo.
2,009 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 2,098 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 434 other reds 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 Valdubon Ribera del Duero Roble 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 · Spain (435 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 2,009.
