Red · Robertson · South Africa
Robertson Winery Pinotage
Scored from 1,248 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
“I gave a pretty negative review for the 2013 vintage before, but my immediate thought on sipping this was "Mmmm!". Smooth and fruity, while the scent of dark chocolate and cigars rise to your nose, and a nice islay whisky-like aftertaste of smokiness after it breathes.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
A deep purple tint on the rim with delicious flavours of ripe strawberry, banana, juicy plums and rich, red cherry. Produced in an early drinking style with well-integrated wood and a soft, smooth finish. Enjoy now with roast beef, guinea fowl, roast chicken, stews, lamb, pizza and pasta.
Robertson Winery Pinotage is a South African red from Robertson.
131 other reds from South Africa form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,248 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,287 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 Robertson Winery Pinotage 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 1,248.
