Red · Wellington · Afrique du Sud
Thokozani Cabernet Franc
Scored from 51 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Afrique du Sud (10 wines).
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What reviewers say
“A beautiful red colour, not quite burgundy yet, but not yet blood red either. I love the nose on this, black fruit come to mind and my bias is blackberries. The name Thokozani is what got my attention, as I am in a rejoice mood! The team at Diemersfontein have put together an empowerment initiative I will need to research further with this wine 🍷”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Thokozani Cabernet Franc is a South African red from Wellington.
9 other reds from South Africa form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 51 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 52 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Thokozani Cabernet Franc 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 · Afrique du Sud (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 51.
