Red · Península de Setúbal · Portugal
Venâncio da Costa Lima Pioneiro Tinto
Scored from 145 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Portugal (351 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Easy drinking, simple but solid blend from southern Portugal, great QPR for a weeknight dinner or hanging out with friends/family. 60% Castelao, 30% Aragonez (Tempranillo) & 10% Syrah aged for five months in French oak M- body/tannin/acid with a mix of red and black fruit and hints of earthy tobacco black cherry red plum raspberry blackberry tobacco leaf cedar cocoa Paired with pepperoni pizza and a family reunion”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Venâncio da Costa Lima Pioneiro Tinto is a Portuguese red from Península de Setúbal. The blend is Aragonez and Shiraz Syrah. At $14.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the under $15 band.
The calibrated figure is built from 145 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 147 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 351 Portuguese reds.
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 Venâncio da Costa Lima Pioneiro Tinto 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 · Portugal (351 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 145.
