Red · Elgin · South Africa
Lothian Vineyards Vineyard Selection Pinot Noir
Scored from 388 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
“95/100 Naso intenso e complesso, apre con ciliegia matura, marmellata di ribes, sottobosco, muschio, note sapide di fungo, buccia di formaggio, stagionatura di carne, salamoia, sandalo, oud.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Deep, ruby red hue with a fragrant boquet of red plums, raspberry and black cherry overlaid with integrated oak spice. The palate shows ripe, red berry fruit and cherry flavours with a lingering fruit sweetness. Tannins are fine and integrated, making the wine immediately approachable.
From Elgin in South Africa, Lothian Vineyards Vineyard Selection Pinot Noir is a red.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 132 South African reds. The calibrated figure is built from 388 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 402 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 Lothian Vineyards Vineyard Selection Pinot Noir 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 388.
