Red · Beechworth · Australia
Castagna Genesis - Syrah
Scored from 252 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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Tasting profile
A deeply colored Syrah with aromas of dark berries, anise, and cedary oak layered with smoky, meaty notes of bacon and cinnamon. Full-bodied and massively concentrated yet creamy and balanced, with cherry and pepper flavors carrying through a long, fruit-driven finish.
Synthesized from 252Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Biodynamic single-vineyard wine. Estate grown Shiraz with a touch of Viognier. Its smokiness surrounds aromas of anise and cedary oak with blackberries. It's meaty with a hint of animality, cinnamon, bacon strip”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Castagna Genesis - Syrah is a red from Beechworth, Australia, made from Shiraz Syrah.
516 other reds from Australia form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 252 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 259 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 Castagna Genesis - 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 · 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 252.
