White · Franschhoek · Zuid-Afrika
Rickety Bridge Road to Santiago Natural Ferment Semillon
Scored from 47 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Zuid-Afrika (94 wines).
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Tasting profile
A complex, full-bodied old-bush-vine Semillon showing citrus, stone fruit, pineapple and honey alongside hay, vanilla and well-integrated oak. Rich, creamy and oily on the palate yet balanced and dry, with bright acidity and a long fruity finish that suits richer fish dishes.
Synthesized from 47Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Citrus, hay, stone fruit, well oaked, aromatic, complex. Full bodied, rich, round, still prominent acidity but in balance. Well oaked, long fruity aftertaste, will mature and improve further”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Rickety Bridge Road to Santiago Natural Ferment Semillon is a South African white from Franschhoek.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 94 South African whites. The calibrated figure is built from 47 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 47 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 Rickety Bridge Road to Santiago Natural Ferment Semillon 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 White · Zuid-Afrika (94 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 47.
