Red · Szekszárd · Hungary
Takler Reserve Bikavér
Scored from 263 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Hungary (17 wines).
Find this wine: view on Vivino · compare prices on Wine-Searcher
What reviewers say
“Very good Hungarian blend, Kékfrankos, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Kadarka, a medium ruby-red color with garnet reflexes. Nose: medium intense, mild, dark fruit, red fruit, spices, vanilla, tea leaves, leather. In the mouth: ripe red fruit, fleshy cherry, red currants, blackcurrant, blueberry, plum, green herbs, dried herbs, some of the oak wood, soft spices, pepper, balsamic notes. Wine medium body, soft, juicy, fruity, with a nice silky texture, and mild acidity.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Takler Reserve Bikavér is a red from Szekszárd, Hungary, blended from Cabernet Franc and Merlot.
The calibrated figure is built from 263 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 270 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. 16 other reds from Hungary form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Takler Reserve Bikavér 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 · Hungary (17 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 263.
