Red · Kuststreek · Zuid-Afrika
Spier The Yellowwood Organic Red Blend
Scored from 198 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Zuid-Afrika (10 wines).
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What reviewers say
“I'm for some reason always sceptical about SA wines. It may be unfair as it is mainly because of my serious dislike of the Pinotage grape, but I may just be a hypocrite. Spier actually make some very price worthy wines so again a may have to stand corrected.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Notes of pomegranate, cassis and red cherries with fruit and spice-laden palate. Fine tannin integration and good acidity give a lasting impression on the palate.
Spier The Yellowwood Organic Red Blend is a South African red from Kuststreek. The blend is Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Shiraz Syrah and Merlot.
The calibrated figure is built from 198 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 205 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 10 South African reds.
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 Spier The Yellowwood Organic Red Blend 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 · Zuid-Afrika (10 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 198.
