Red · Coastal Region · South Africa
Fleur du Cap Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 750 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 very deep & dark ruby color with a slight brick red undertone in the glass Rich & deep aromas of cassis, tobacco & oak opens the nose. Earthy & liquorice elements with oxidation. Coffee, toffee & vanilla ending The palate opens with blackberry, a hint of sour cherry & tobacco.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The wine is deep ruby in color with ripe berry, cherry and chocolate aromas with traces of vanilla and spices on the nose. On the palate this wine is rich and full-bodied with ample prune and cherry flavors and a long lasting aftertaste with a good tannin structure.
Fleur du Cap Cabernet Sauvignon is a South African red from Coastal Region. It sits in the $15–30 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $25.70.
131 other reds from South Africa form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 750 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 776 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 Fleur du Cap 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 750.
