Red · Western Cape · South Africa
Thelema Mountain Red
Scored from 929 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · South Africa (132 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Backlog from impromptu lunch in pub to shelter from rain. Lucky this was nearby, which visited prior. Mark up than standard ‘pub grub’, with wine to match. By glass slightly limited, but opted for Thelema as bit of a soft spot after visiting them last year.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Spicy aromas of black pepper and mulberry mingle with the plum flavours of this soft and approachable wine.
Thelema Mountain Red is a South African red made from Chenin Blanc. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $16.99, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band. It is bottled in Western Cape.
131 other reds from South Africa form the cohort it is ranked inside. 929 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 962 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 Thelema Mountain Red 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 · South Africa (132 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 929.
