Red · Paarl · South Africa
Vilafonté Seriously Old Dirt
Scored from 1,883 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
“86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Merlot, 4% Malbec and 2% Cabernet Franc. For 18 months in French oak. Pours a deep ruby-red. Inviting bouquet of ripe blackberries, cassis, and plums, interwoven with hints of vanilla, cedarwood and leather.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Vilafonté Seriously Old Dirt is a South African red from Paarl. At $23.95 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $15–30 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 131 other reds from South Africa, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 1,883 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,924 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 Vilafonté Seriously Old Dirt 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 1,883.
