White · Stellenbosch · South Africa
Rustenberg Five Soldiers
Scored from 368 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · South Africa (872 wines).
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Tasting profile
A full-bodied Chardonnay with ripe fruit and berry tones, subtle clove spice, and a buttery, oak-influenced mouthfeel balanced by fresh acidity. Reviewers highlight its rounded structure and oak-fruit harmony, noting it benefits from decanting to fully open up.
Synthesized from 368Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Beste witte wijn die ik op heb in Zuid Afrika. Wat mij betreft de beste combinatie tussen de zuren en eiken hout. Een smaaksensatie.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Rustenberg Five Soldiers is a South African white from Stellenbosch.
368 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 373 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 871 other whites from South Africa, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Rustenberg Five Soldiers 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 · South Africa (872 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 368.
