Red · Stellenbosch · Afrique du Sud
Boschendal Nicolas
Scored from 340 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Afrique du Sud (10 wines).
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What reviewers say
“90 pts | SA red blend of 🍇 33% Cab Sauvignon, 30% Shiraz, 21% Merlot, 10% Malbec, 3% Cab Franc, 3% Petit Verdot from 🇿🇦 Helderberg, Stellenbosch. Aged for ca. 16 months in 🇫🇷 oak barrels. 30% new. Medium ruby color.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Boschendal Nicolas is a red from Stellenbosch, South Africa, blended from Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz Syrah and Petit Verdot.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 10 South African reds. The calibrated figure is built from 340 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 341 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 Boschendal Nicolas 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 · Afrique du Sud (10 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 340.
