Red · Western Cape · South Africa
HPF1855 - Hermanuspietersfontein Skoonma
Scored from 320 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
“Trophy Wine Show 2025 Region: W.O. Western Cape Composition: Shiraz blend with Mourvèdre, Grenache, Viognier (~12% Mourvèdre) Winemaking: 50% whole‑bunch + 50% crushed; matured 24 months in large French oak foudres; bottled after cellar ageing Colour: Brick red to deep purple Aromas: Spice, violets, black olive, dark chocolate, purple fruit Palate: Generous mouthfeel, smooth tannins, delicate persistence; vibrant, elegant finish”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Western Cape in South Africa, HPF1855 - Hermanuspietersfontein Skoonma is a red.
The calibrated figure is built from 320 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 328 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 HPF1855 - Hermanuspietersfontein Skoonma 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 320.
