Fortified · Calitzdorp · South Africa
De Krans Cape Vintage Reserve
Scored from 158 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · South Africa (29 wines).
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Tasting profile
A deep, rich, full-bodied port with black currant and plum fruit set against pepper, balsamic, and firm tannins, drinking silky smooth and complex with age. An award-winning South African vintage port built for chilly evenings and long cellaring.
Synthesized from 158Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Black currants and balsamic syrup , deep rich color- forget Portugal - SA makes the best! This is SA's no 1! Wow! Perfect to end a stunning meal!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
De Krans Cape Vintage Reserve is a fortified wine from Calitzdorp, South Africa.
The calibrated figure is built from 158 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 160 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 29 South African fortified 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 De Krans Cape Vintage Reserve 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 Fortified · South Africa (29 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 158.
Cohort: Fortified · South Africa
