White · Walker Bay · South Africa
Benguela Cove Catalina Semillon
Scored from 73 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · South Africa (872 wines).
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Tasting profile
A vivid, layered white with bright acidity, mineral freshness, and a soft finish, showing lively fruit alongside distinctive green pepper and jalapeno notes. Reviewers describe it as richly flavored yet balanced between sweet and sour, leaving a clean, refreshing impression.
Synthesized from 73Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Topper. Mineraal fris gelaagd. Wat is die Johann Fourie toch een geweldige wijnmaker daar op Benguala Cove in de Walker Bay SA.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Benguela Cove Catalina Semillon is a white from Walker Bay, South Africa.
871 other whites from South Africa form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 73 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 74 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 Benguela Cove Catalina Semillon 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 White · South Africa (872 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 73.
