Is Malbec actually good?

Malbec sits in the 54.8% percentile against every wine we rank, meaning it scores above 54.8% of them.

How does Malbec compare to similar wines?

Within Red · South Africa, Malbec lands in the 50.4% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a wine for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Malbec's score based on?

138 calibrated reviewers stand behind Malbec's score.

Red · Walker Bay · South Africa

Raka Malbec

Name: Raka Malbec
Brand: Raka

Scored from 138 calibrated Vivino reviewers. Cohort: Red · South Africa (132 wines).

54.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 69,234 ranked wines

50.4%

In-cohort percentile

Red · South Africa · 132 wines

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AI-adjusted percentile

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Is Malbec a good wine?

What reviewers say

“A promising aroma - blackberries & chocolate, a touch of leathery spice. Ureka!”

From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.

Summary

Raka Malbec is a South African red from Walker Bay.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against 131 other reds from South Africa, not against the corpus as a whole. 138 Vivino reviewers are calibrated for this bottle, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 141 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.

Cohort: Red · South Africa · 132 wines
Calibrated reviewers: none yet
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Red · South Africa

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