Fortified · Calitzdorp · South Africa
Boplaas Cape Vintage
Scored from 97 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · South Africa (29 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Incredible fortified wine-2017 bit different,slight lighter than other vintages noted by yours truly-stunning fresh appeal,incredible balance. Enticing berry Boquet notes: plum, mulberry& cassis with perfume, sweet marzipan &tar hint&protruding fresh,almost salt nuance.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This is a dark port, purplish black port with flavours of cherries, plum, blackberries, violets, pepper, spiciness and dark chocolate. Expectations are meet when you taste the wine – full-bodied with big ripe tannins and integrated alcohol, with a long and luscious after-taste.
Boplaas Cape Vintage is a fortified wine from Calitzdorp, South Africa, blended from Souzao and Touriga Nacional.
The calibrated figure is built from 97 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 97 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 28 other fortified wines 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 Boplaas Cape Vintage 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 Fortified · South Africa (29 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 97.
Cohort: Fortified · South Africa
