Red · West-Kaap · Zuid-Afrika
Steenberg Five Lives Red Blend
Scored from 114 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
“A blend of 62% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 16% Malbec from the Western Cape, South Africa. Features aromas of black currant, plum, cedar, tobacco, leather, bay leaf, paprika, fennel, graphite, anise, and black pepper.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Steenberg Five Lives Red Blend is a red from West-Kaap, South Africa. It blends Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 9 other reds from South Africa, not against the corpus as a whole. 114 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 114 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Steenberg Five Lives 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 114.
