Red · Black Sage - Osoyoos · Canada
Black Hills Estate Nota Bene
Scored from 911 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Canada (38 wines).
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Tasting profile
A full-bodied, dry Bordeaux-style blend of Cabernet, Merlot, and Cab Franc, showing surprising fruit and a touch of jammy character held in balance. Smooth, aromatic, and easy-drinking, it pairs well with beef or lamb and drinks like a special-occasion red.
Synthesized from 911Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Blend of cab, merlot, cab franc. Surprisingly fruity but full bodied, aromatic, special occasion wine.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Black Sage - Osoyoos in Canada, Black Hills Estate Nota Bene is a red.
37 other reds from Canada form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 911 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 946 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 Black Hills Estate Nota Bene 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 · Canada (38 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 911.
