Red · Breede River Valley · South Africa
Excelsior Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 1,433 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
“A soft supple wine. Thank you wine gods. At first taste the spice,peppered oak , skips , jumps and bounces onto your tongue tickling your taste buds. This lasted for about an hour and a half. Then something special happened.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It is Blackish plum in colour.It has Ripe blackcurrants a plumy fruit. Soft ripe tannins balance toasty oak aromas and sweet fruit flavours.Good structure with soft, clean finish.
Excelsior Cabernet Sauvignon is a South African red from Breede River Valley.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 131 other reds from South Africa, not against the corpus as a whole. 1,433 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 1,483 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Excelsior 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 1,433.
