Red · Hawke's Bay · New Zealand
Te Mata Gamay Noir
Scored from 771 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · New Zealand (238 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Clear & bright. Light colour, rose at the rim. Floral notes on the nose but mostly summer fruits, cherry and strawberries. Light palate, refreshing and crisp. Light acidity, bursting with fresh cherry, strawberries, raspberries and a hint of something earthy.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has a beguiling fragrance of rose petals and crushed ripe raspberries, with a floral citrus blossom twist. It is refreshing, soft and rich, with an immediate delicacy. Plum, black cherry and notes of cocoa and French vanilla add to the wine’s charm and luxurious, velvet feel.
Te Mata Gamay Noir is a red from Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. At $19.95 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
237 other reds from New Zealand form the cohort it is ranked inside. 771 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 785 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 Te Mata Gamay Noir 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 · New Zealand (238 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 771.
