White · Capo Occidentale · Sudafrica
Wild Coast Sauvignon Blanc
Scored from 251 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Sudafrica (15 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Pale lemon; medium (-) nose of gooseberry, minerals, lemon grass & little else. Not noseworthy. Medium (+) acidity, medium body (see below) & abv (12.5%). Palate: lemon zest, cream (surely from lees contact), lemon grass & minerals. A dry, drinkable yet sadly disappointing SB. Pairs well chilled and with food (in this case, cheese & nuts with assorted "gourmet crackers," whatever the hell those are) but on its own, it falls flat. There is nothing wrong with it, but nothing amazing either.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Wild Coast Sauvignon Blanc is a South African white from Capo Occidentale.
The calibrated figure is built from 251 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 253 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 14 other whites from South Africa, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Wild Coast Sauvignon Blanc 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 White · Sudafrica (15 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 251.
