Red · Stellenbosch · South Africa
Dombeya Fenix
Scored from 216 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · South Africa (132 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Wonderful Bordeaux blend ! Full rich concentrated black cherries &black berry fruit flavors,some fruitcake with notes of tobacco & lots of dark chocolate. Mouthfeel is complex, smooth &soft with flavors of dark chocolate &black berries &finishes smooth & balanced.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This is a blend of 49% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41% Merlot and 10% Petit Verdot. Full rich concentrated black cherries and black berry fruit flavours and fruitcake with underlying notes of tobacco and lots of dark chocolate. The taste is complex, smooth, soft textured and layered with flavours of dark chocolate and black berries and finishes smooth and balanced.
Dombeya Fenix is a red from Stellenbosch, South Africa. It blends Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
216 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 223 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 131 other reds from South Africa form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Dombeya Fenix 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 Red · South Africa (132 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 216.
