Red · Stellenbosch · South Africa
Meerlust Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 1,251 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
“In 1978 Giorgio Dalla Cia joined Meerlust as Cellarmaster, alongside renowned winemaker Nico Myburgh, who took charge of this centuries old family owned estate in 1959.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The wine has a deep, opaque plum-black appearance, very bright and youthful. The nose exhibits lifted cassis, plum and mineral notes with intense stony and graphite aromas. The palate is full yet elegant where the bouquet follows through and the intensity of fruit is balanced by a vibrant acidity and sleek, polished tannins. The palate is lingering and finishes clean with lingering dark fruit flavours. Elegant, well structured, with a long lingering finish.
From Stellenbosch in South Africa, Meerlust Cabernet Sauvignon is a red.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 131 other reds from South Africa, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 1,251 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,288 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 Meerlust 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 1,251.
