White · Wachau · Austria
Familie Schmelz Steinriegl Smaragd Riesling
Scored from 99 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Austria (1,190 wines).
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Tasting profile
A dry, structured Riesling showing white peach, apricot, citrus, and honey, with classic petrol and chamomile notes lifted by a distinct mineral, almost salty edge. Reviewers highlight refreshing acidity, balance, and an elegant, long finish that has held up well with age.
Synthesized from 99Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Weißer Pfirsich, etwas Orangen und Blütenhonig, saftig, salzig und leicht mineralisch, erfrischende Säure, elegant am Gaumen bis ins Finale”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Familie Schmelz Steinriegl Smaragd Riesling is a white from Wachau, Austria.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 1,189 other whites from Austria, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 99 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 100 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 Familie Schmelz Steinriegl Smaragd Riesling 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 White · Austria (1,190 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 99.
