Sparkling · Elgin · South Africa
Charles Fox Cipher Brut
Scored from 96 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · South Africa (111 wines).
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Tasting profile
A Cap Classique blend of pinot noir and chardonnay with persistent bubbles and notable complexity, showing a yeasty brioche and warm bread character alongside apple, lemon cream, and floral notes. Balanced between yeastiness, fruit, and acid, with a lasting finish that holds up to food and rivals Champagne.
Synthesized from 96Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Just an amazing bubbly from an amazing terroir. An amazing blend of chardonnay ans pinot noir à must have but you will wait utile march 2015”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Charles Fox Cipher Brut is a sparkling wine from Elgin, South Africa.
96 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 98 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 111 South African sparkling wines.
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 Charles Fox Cipher Brut 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 · South Africa (111 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 96.
Cohort: Sparkling · South Africa
