White · Franschhoek · South Africa
Damascene Sémillon
Scored from 90 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
A layered, textured Semillon showing lemon, green apple, stone fruit and melon alongside hay, beeswax, lanolin and buttery richness, lifted by zesty acidity on a long finish. Best well chilled, with the structure to age another 5-10 years.
Synthesized from 90Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“What a difference from the 2018. This has oatmeal, hay, wax, and apple, melon and fynbos. Even more balanced than the previous vintage. Exceptional”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Damascene Sémillon is a white from Franschhoek, South Africa.
The calibrated figure is built from 90 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 91 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 871 other whites 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 Damascene Sémillon 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 90.
