White · Piekenierskloof · South Africa
Ken Forrester Dirty Little Secret
Scored from 249 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · South Africa (872 wines).
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Tasting profile
A rich, full-bodied Chenin Blanc with a perfumed nose of stone fruit, ripe citrus, wax, and honey, leading into a creamy palate of nectarine, apricot, yellow apple, meringue, and honeysuckle. A subtle touch of oak frames moderate acidity and a long, persistent finish.
Synthesized from 249Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“What a gem, Ken knows his Chenin that’s for sure. Possibly the best out there, Drink it on its own or with food, it makes no deference this is special !”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Ken Forrester Dirty Little Secret is a white from Piekenierskloof, South Africa.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 872 South African whites. 249 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 250 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 Ken Forrester Dirty Little Secret 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 White · South Africa (872 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 249.
