Sparkling · Tasmania · Australia
Apogee Deluxe Vintage Brut
Scored from 46 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · Australia (378 wines).
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Tasting profile
A cool-climate Tasmanian sparkler in the traditional French style, showing a fine bead, light mousse, and a golden orange-pink hue with brioche on the nose. Reviewers describe it as fruity and peachy with a buttery, creamy mid-palate, a hint of Pinot Noir, and a smooth, balanced finish that is dry but not austere.
Synthesized from 46Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“buttery creamy mid palate with an astringency that is just a smooth to finish. beautiful drop”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Tasmania in Australia, Apogee Deluxe Vintage Brut is a sparkling wine.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 377 other sparkling wines from Australia, not against the corpus as a whole. 46 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 46 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Apogee Deluxe Vintage Brut 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 Sparkling · Australia (378 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 46.
Cohort: Sparkling · Australia
