Sparkling · Marlborough · New Zealand
Cloudy Bay Pelorus Brut
Scored from 913 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Sparkling · New Zealand (51 wines).
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What reviewers say
“LVMH - owners of Cloudy Bay The M is for Moët (& Chandon) so no surprise then really, that this is good fizz! This wine was stood for hours before tasting ..”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Pelorus Vintage has enticing aromas of ripe red apples, quince jam and rosehips. The wine has a fine, elegant structure that bursts with flavour ... freshly baked lemon biscotti with a nougat nuttiness and creamy minerality ... leading seamlessly into a long, crisp finish.
From Marlborough in New Zealand, Cloudy Bay Pelorus Brut is a sparkling wine. It blends Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
50 other sparkling wines from New Zealand form the cohort it is ranked inside. 913 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 924 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Cloudy Bay Pelorus 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 · New Zealand (51 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 913.
Cohort: Sparkling · New Zealand
