Red · Bekaa Valley · Lebanon
Batroun Mountains Syrah
Scored from 18 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Lebanon (10 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Brownish, ruby colored syrah that has lots of legs and some sediment. Jammy aroma with spice, pepper, and smoke in the nose. Tastes like tobacco, pepper, and very little dark red fruit such as a less-sweet red currant, wild raspberry, or out-of-season plum. Lots of overpowering acidity and tannins. Not my favorite profile but I like this better in initial taste than some syrahs. $11.99 from HyVee in Shakopee, MN.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The nose shows great complexity with dried fruits, spices, tobacco, caramel, smoked meat and gun powder (pierre à fusil) notes. The mouth is complex with incredible structure intensity, finishing on the fruit and a pleasant acidity.
Batroun Mountains Syrah is a Lebanese red made from Shiraz Syrah. It comes from Bekaa Valley, in Lebanon.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 9 other reds from Lebanon, not against the corpus as a whole. Only 18 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 18 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track.
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 Batroun Mountains Syrah 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 · Lebanon (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 18.
