Red · Stellenbosch · South Africa
B Vintners Lone Wolf Cinsault
Scored from 70 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · South Africa (132 wines).
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What reviewers say
“A joint venture between the cousins gavin brewer and brewer raats of stellenbosch south africa of an old bush cinsault vine planted in 1953 on a granite and shist soil.made organic style using a method of spontaneous whole bunch and semi carbonic fermentation for 10days..it is then pressed with a basket press into seasoned barrels for 10mths before bottling. Nose..cherry,raspberry Taste ..dry,mild acidity,spicy and a enjoyable tasty drink. Jjyeo 91 26.12.23 Alc 12.5%”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
B Vintners Lone Wolf Cinsault is a South African red from Stellenbosch.
70 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 71 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 131 other reds from South Africa, 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 B Vintners Lone Wolf Cinsault 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 · South Africa (132 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 70.
