Red · Breede River Valley · South Africa
Fat Bastard (Thierry & Guy) Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 415 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
“Bright ruby red colour. Fruity, red and black fruits nose with plum, raspberry, some mocha or milk chocolate. Red plum, slight spice, raspberry and cranberry taste with milk chocolate and a slight earthiness and oak also in there. Fairly dry with medium acidity and smoothe tannins. Soft and smooth elegant, almost silky, finish. Well balanced red, medium + bodied and drinks easily.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Breede River Valley in South Africa, Fat Bastard (Thierry & Guy) Cabernet Sauvignon is a red.
131 other reds from South Africa form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 415 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 429 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Fat Bastard (Thierry & Guy) 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 415.
