Red · Alicante · Spain
Vinessens - Casa Balaguer La Casica del Abuelo
Scored from 533 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
“A blend of 80% Monastrell, 10% Garnacha, and 10% Syrah from Villena, Alicante, Spain. Organic, 6 months of aging in oak barrels. Shows notes of violet, blackberry, dark cherry, balsamic, cedar, thyme, and soil.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep cherry colour, with purple tones. Red and black fruit aromas like plums and prunes, with hints of balsamic and aromatic herbs. With a silky and pleasant entry in the mouth, it has sweet and ripe tannins and well balanced acidity
Vinessens - Casa Balaguer La Casica del Abuelo is a red from Alicante, Spain, blended from Monastrell, Shiraz Syrah and Petit Verdot.
The calibrated figure is built from 533 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 548 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 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 Vinessens - Casa Balaguer La Casica del Abuelo 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 533.
