Fortified · Porto · Portugal
Vasques de Carvalho LBV Porto
Scored from 72 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Portugal (1,422 wines).
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Tasting profile
A bold, very sweet LBV port that reviewers describe as well balanced and explosive on the palate, with dark fruit notes of black raisin, dried blackberry, ripe blackberry, cherry and plum alongside caramel, date and jam accents. The body is powerful yet easy-drinking, with warming, slightly peppery alcohol and only faint wood, pairing well with strong cheese and dark chocolate.
Synthesized from 72Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Very light and well balanced, but didn’t have so full cherry aftertaste compared to the vintage one.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Vasques de Carvalho LBV Porto is a Portuguese fortified wine from Porto.
The calibrated figure is built from 72 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 73 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,421 other fortified wines from Portugal, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Vasques de Carvalho LBV Porto 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 · Portugal (1,422 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 72.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
