Red · Stellenbosch · Zuid-Afrika
Waterford Estate Antigo
Scored from 200 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Zuid-Afrika (10 wines).
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What reviewers say
“90/100. Dense deep ruby red colour. An appealing nose showing plush red and black berry fruit aromas followed by herbal and floral nuances. On the palate the blackcurrant, blackberry and plum flavours are balanced with earthy herbaceous notes with a hint of spice. Medium-bodied, dry, fine tannins, fresh acidity, fruity on the finish. Wonderful new release from Waterford a Cape Bordeaux blend which consists of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Malbec.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Waterford Estate Antigo is a red from Stellenbosch, South Africa. It blends Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Merlot.
200 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 200 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 10 South African reds.
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 Waterford Estate Antigo 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 · Zuid-Afrika (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 200.
