Red · Paarl · Südafrika
Laborie Impossible Red
Scored from 373 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Südafrika (13 wines).
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What reviewers say
“👁 Dunkelrot mit klaren Schlieren am Glas. 👃In der Nase trockene Holz- und Tabaknoten. Leichte dunkle und herbe Fruchtigkeit wie gährende Pflaumen sind zu erkennen - wenn auch leicht. 👅Trockene und dennoch leicht fruchtige sanfte Aromen wie im Geruch sind wieder zu erkennen. Es kommen trockenes Leder und eine klare Rauchnote dazu. Ein Nachklang der angenehm nachhallt und die Fruchtugkeut nochmals mehr zum Vorschein bringt.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Laborie Impossible Red is a red from Paarl, South Africa.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 12 other reds from South Africa, not against the corpus as a whole. 373 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 392 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 Laborie Impossible Red 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 · Südafrika (13 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 373.
