White · Stellenbosch · South Africa
Damascene Chenin Blanc
Scored from 104 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · South Africa (872 wines).
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Tasting profile
Bright citrus and stone fruit notes of lemon, white peach, nectarine, and apricot lead into a creamy, mineral mouthfeel with vibrant acidity and a notably long finish. Elegant and well-balanced, with subtle herbal and orchard-fruit nuances that make it feel sophisticated rather than overtly fruity.
Synthesized from 104Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Beste witte wijn ooit gedronken - La Colombe”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Damascene Chenin Blanc is a white from Stellenbosch, South Africa. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $55.19, which puts the bottle in the $30–60 band.
104 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 104 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 872 South African whites.
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 Damascene Chenin Blanc 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 White · South Africa (872 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 104.
