Red · Barossa · Australia
Chris Ringland Shiraz
Scored from 1,242 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
“I was introduced to this wine while living in Oz. This is everything you expect and want in a big bold Aussie Shiraz. Very fruity, almost chocolate taste to it. So smooth on the tongue. It has a high alcohol content at 15%, yet you really don't notice it in the taste.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Barossa in Australia, Chris Ringland Shiraz is a red.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 516 other reds from Australia, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 1,242 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,303 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 Chris Ringland Shiraz 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 1,242.
