Sparkling · England · United Kingdom
Balfour Leslie's Reserve
Scored from 446 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · United Kingdom (193 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Dal Kent, dai vigneti di Hush Heath uno spumante giovane e fresco fatto con metodo tradizionale da uve pinot noir,chardonnay e pinot meunier,dal colore oro brillante con riflessi rosacei che si apre al naso con sentori di mela verde,di limone,pera,nocciola,frutta secca e di brioches e biscotti. In bocca si offre al palato fresco,pulito,cremoso rotondo,equilibrato,con rinfrescante acidità,note fruttate di ribes, mineralita' di calcio e un finale dolciastro. Bevuto come aperitivo su tartine.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Bright gold with attractive pink highlights and a fine sustained bead.Fresh and clean with hints of brioche and red apple. Beautifully balanced with crisp acidity and a touch of sweetness. Refreshing flavours of lime and redcurrant.
From England in the United Kingdom, Balfour Leslie's Reserve is a sparkling wine.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 192 other sparkling wines from the United Kingdom, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 446 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 451 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Balfour Leslie's Reserve 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 · United Kingdom (193 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 446.
Cohort: Sparkling · United Kingdom
