Red · Langhorne Creek · Australia
Wild & Wilder The Pugilist Cabernet Sauvignon
Scored from 191 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Australia (517 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Like a goblet filled with fresh dark blood to behold. Sweet over-ripe plum, jam, cigar and toast waft up to tickle thy nose. Hark! Is that yeast and rosemary too? Perhaps thy foot or blue cheese? Upon my lips, thou art bold you pugilist! Dense, layered, decadent! Sweaty saddle! Smoky oak! Roly poly pudding with blackcurrants, cassis and warm alcohol lift! A bloody T-bone! A roast leg of lamb! Drink it snd be merry dear friends!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The nose shows an array of perfumed characters such as violets, oregano thyme, along with glacé cherry aromas. Sweet ripe cherry fruit dominates the front palate which then develops into a more savoury wine, showing earthiness, toasted spices and lovely dried herb characters.
Wild & Wilder The Pugilist Cabernet Sauvignon is a red from Langhorne Creek, Australia.
191 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 517 Australian 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 Wild & Wilder The Pugilist Cabernet Sauvignon 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 · Australia (517 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 191.
