The Vivino Wine Rating System: Credibility of The Crowd

Why do we from Adriavino use the Vivino rating system.

As the season of celebration nears, the last thing you have time for is endless research on what wines to serve or bring to your holiday events. That’s where Vivino comes in - a five star wine rating system based on the opinions of people like you who have bought and tasted the wines you’re considering. The Vivino community of millions of wine lovers really knows their stuff, and is passionate about sharing their knowledge. Learn about Vivino's wine rating system including how our ratings compare to scores from experts like Robert Parker and Wine Enthusiast.

While wine experts have traditionally used a 100-point scoring system, in which 90+ point wines are superior wines and 95+ point wines are extraordinary, Vivino uses a 5-star rating system in which users can rate any wine 1 - 5 stars. This kind of rating system is familiar to consumers as it is commonly used across user-generated websites and apps, popularized by companies like Amazon, TripAdvisor and more. When Vivino was founded, this was the system that resonated best with wine drinkers around the globe.

We have heard the question time and time again - can wine ratings from a collective community of wine drinkers themselves really work? Vivino of course knew the answer but wanted to have quantitative backing. They looked at more than 100,000 expert ratings and analyzed how they compare to Vivino ratings - what they found is a 4.0 Vivino rating correlates with a 90 point expert rating. Here’s how Robert Parker, Wine Enthusiast and other critic ratings compare to Vivino ratings, collectively.

Unlike many wine review sites and critic ratings, Vivino ratings are based solely on the ratings of the crowd - wine drinkers just like you - and are never increased or decreased by advertising, sponsorship, or other factors. We love reading what experts think of wines, but the Vivino community’s ratings do them one better. That’s because out of all the world-class wines in the world, only about 20 percent have an expert rating. By comparison, the vast majority of the world’s wines have been rated on Vivino and new wines are added every single day. Another advantage of the Vivino ratings have is that the community members are honest, sometimes brutally so, with their ratings. Many experts opt not to publish poor ratings, assuming that wines that are lacking will eventually take themselves out of the running. But with Vivino, you’ll find a wide range of ratings, letting you know what you can buy with confidence and what wine might not be the best fit.

Insider tip: Right now, the average Vivino rating is a 3.6. That means any wine you get with that rating is going to be a nice, everyday wine. Wines that are rated 4.0 are less common, as they are ranked better than 85 percent of the 9.5 million wines in the Vivino database. Wines rated 4.5 are even more extraordinary, as they are better than 99 percent of the wines you see on Vivino. A rating above 4.5 means you’ve found something truly rare and special.

https://www.vivino.com/wine-news/vivino-5-star-rating-system

With Dingač into the world

Original post from: Taste of Adriatic by Tomislav Radić

Mate Violić Matuško winery from Potomje on the Pelješac peninsula was presented at the forum "It's time for ..." in Zagreb. Violić graduated as an agronomist and in the period from 1990 to 1997 he successfully led PZ Dingač. Since 1998 he has been starting his own private wine journey. He filled his first bottles of Plavac mali in early February 1998, followed by years in which he slowly built a cellar as the vineyards grew. Today, the cellar has 2,500 square meters and during the year it is visited by 70,000 wine lovers from around the world and Croatia.

The winery also has its own cellar in Dubrovnik in the old town, and representative offices in Split and Zagreb. Apart from the neighboring countries of BiH, Montenegro, and Serbia, the wines are exported to Austria, Germany, England, and significant quantities to China on several occasions. 350,000 bottles are produced annually on our own 20 hectares at the positions of Dingač, Postup, Župa pelješka. And in Sveta Nedjelja on Hvar, in an excellent location, there is another hectare planted with Plavac.

Of course, the most famous and strongest location is Dingač on the southern position of the peninsula, 10 kilometers long, and the tunnel from Potomje to there was broken in the mid-seventies. At that Dingač location, the sun shines on the vine and "feeds" it three times; directly from the sky, through reflection from the sea, and by the land covered with small stones. Special wines from the Matuško Violić cellar are Dingač Superior (selected from dried berries), Reserva, which has a resdual sugar of about 5 grams an,d the most expensive Royal wine (price in the cellar 760 kuna) with a residual sugar of 10 to 12 grams and 16 percent alcohol.

At the presentation we tasted Pošip 12.5% ​​alcohol from 2021. Grk 14% 2021. Plavac mali Matuško 13% 2019, Postup 14% from 2017, Zinfandel 14% 2018 and Dingač 14.5 2017. Pošip 2021 is a smaller part of the grapes from Potomje and larger ones bought in Smokvica. The Grk 2021, as sommelier Tomislav Jakopović said, retains high acids, iandand s a very soft wine, mothe uth is full and it asks for a sip more. It has elegance and high alcohol does not matter. It was found that both initial wines look older than 7 or 8 months when they were made. Technology is important here and it is moving forward, so wines are coming to market more and more mature.

Zinfandel wine does not have a lot of tannins, it is elegant, drinkable but it has a thin body. In terms of marketing, Matuško decided to include this variety, which was once widespread throughout Dalmatia (until it sank due to downy mildew) in its range. After Plavac Matuško, Postup and zinfandel, the tasting ended, as expected, with the best wine of the Dingač promotion from 2017. Small doubts arose about the amount of fermented sugar, ie whether it is dry or not? The wine is dry and least adapted to the market. Matuško has all the necessary knowledge in the process of wine production, an instinct for sales and trade ,and excellent positioning in the market. His work has been recognized and awarded, mostly at Sabatine (he was a champion four times). In Bordeaux, he won, several years ago, gold for Reserva and Royal and silver for Dingač.

photo: Marko Čolić

https://www.tasteofadriatic.com/post/with-dinga%C4%8D-into-the-world 

Minimum intervention, maximum result

Wine lovers know that all too well, the depth behind a good glass of wine. The aromas, structure, balance and that fineness of a long aftertaste.

What I mention here is the result of vinification processes, which a winemaker tries to calibrate year after year to achieve the maximum result. Would the term 'minimal interventionist' be another word for a Mediterranean senior, a bon vivant, who works on principle according to old habits without the intervention of advanced equipment? No, not according to winemaker Vedran Kiridžija.

Call it an act of God or simply lucky that his 30 year old vines grow on a perfect area in Croatia (PDO Dingač or appellation in Dalmatia) and under the most ideal weather conditions produce a high quality product . Minimal intervention is understanding how to adequately, in the right approach and respect to nature, guide the development of the vineyard, in fact as a therapist would do. The result is a wine that is one of Croatia's top knoch.

Winemaker Kiridžija shows his Dingač from 2003, a Croatian concept.

Verdran Kiridzija produces 4000 liters of wine per year from exclusively the indigenous Plavac Mali grape. His red Dingač is full, powerful, with a good balance of acidity and medium tannins. Aromas of dark fruit, cherry, figs and strawberry jam. Also present but not dominant, the pleasant aroma of carob, Mediterranean herbs and wood. Kiridžija is considered one of the best winemakers in Croatia, his wines are available at Adriavino.

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Kiridžija Dingač 2018

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