White · Stellenbosch · Zuid-Afrika
Delaire Graff Terraced Block Reserve
Scored from 222 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Zuid-Afrika (94 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Sweet melon, watermelon, apricot nose characters with a solid butter finish. Probably the best chardonnay of the year. Superlative @delairegraff”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Delaire Graff Terraced Block Reserve is a white from Stellenbosch, South Africa.
The calibrated figure is built from 222 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 225 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 94 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 Delaire Graff Terraced Block 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 White · Zuid-Afrika (94 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 222.
