Red · Swartland · South Africa
Porseleinberg Red
Scored from 1,012 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · South Africa (132 wines).
Find this wine: view on Vivino · compare prices on Wine-Searcher
Tasting profile
A serious, stylistic Swartland Syrah with deep black currant, prune and dark fruit on the nose, layered with pepper and spice over an earthy, complex palate. Tannins range from grainy and thick in heavier vintages to silky and resolved in lighter ones, finishing long and built to age.
Synthesized from 1,012Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Lighter tannins. Subtle berry. Less heavy Han earlier years. Wouldn't lay down as long. For a single cultivar incredibly resolved with smooth edges.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Porseleinberg Red is a red from Swartland, South Africa, made from Shiraz Syrah. It sits in the $60–120 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $64.99.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 132 South African reds. The calibrated figure is built from 1,012 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,025 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 Porseleinberg 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 · 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 1,012.
