Red · Western Cape · South Africa
Douglas Green Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 547 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
“3.8 highly recommend for this price point The nose features violet, magnolia, black fruits, earthy notes and a touch of herbs. On the palate, medium to medium plus bodied as well as acidity, and soft tannins with a hint of sweet finish. Pros: aromas, a touch of sweetness and layers. Cons: body is bit light for a Cabernet, floral aromas fade-away quickly in couples hour. 14% ABV, 4.0 RS, TA 5.8, pH 3.5”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep ruby with a bright edge. Intense dark berries and black currant aromas with attractive gentle smoky oak notes. A succulent medium bodied entry with delicious winterberry flavours supported by well defined ripe tannins for a softly textured juicy finish that lingers
Douglas Green Cabernet Sauvignon is a red from Western Cape, South Africa, made from Pinotage.
The calibrated figure is built from 547 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 564 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 132 South African reds.
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 Douglas Green Cabernet Sauvignon 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 547.
