Red · Matakana · New Zealand
Providence Private Reserve
Scored from 126 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · New Zealand (238 wines).
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Tasting profile
A Bordeaux-style red from Matakana showing dark berry, cassis, and black cherry fruit with notes of cedar, violets, and integrated oak. Reviewers describe it as well-balanced with supple, ripe tannins, a smooth finish, and a mature, elegant character drinking beautifully now.
Synthesized from 126Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Tried this wine 3 years ago and was a little green. Totally different now and tempted to open a second bottle👃a Matakana legend”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Colour with a rich nose of currant and cherry. On the palate it shows tremendous depth and texture with purity of fruit. Chocolate, coffee and berry characteristics combine with elegant acidity and ripe tannins to produce a voluptuous texture and Grand Cru finesse.
Providence Private Reserve is a red from Matakana, New Zealand. It blends Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Merlot.
237 other reds from New Zealand form the cohort it is ranked inside. 126 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 129 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 Providence Private Reserve 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 · New Zealand (238 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 126.
