Red · Heathcote · Australien
De Bortoli DEEN Master's Blend
Scored from 94 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Australien (22 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Last and by far the best of three 187ml mini-bottles 2018 blend of Shiraz, Durif & Petit Verdot from vineyards across Australia. Alc 14.5% 👀 Black Plum /purple colour 👃 Beautiful aroma of dark fruit & leather 👅 Full blooded black currant, blackberry and cedar. ⚖️ great balance of delicious black fruit and silky oak tannins 🏁 long finish of tobacco leaf, mocha and dark fruit Overall, one to stock up the cellar with. Cheers my friends! 🇦🇺🍷😋”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Appearance Deep dark red with purple on the rim. Bouquet A captivating nose of mixed dark fruits, spices, chocolate with hints of vanillin oak. Palate An unusual blend of Durif, Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot were chosen for this Master Blend to enable a myriad of varietal characters to be blended together. A wine with layers of ripe red fruits, spices and chocolate in harmony with soft yet structural tannins and a deft touch of oak.
De Bortoli DEEN Master's Blend is a red from Heathcote, Australia, blended from Durif, Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz Syrah and Petit Verdot.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 21 other reds from Australia, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 94 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 96 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 De Bortoli DEEN Master's Blend 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 · Australien (22 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 94.
