White · Wachau · Austria
Franz Hirtzberger Steinterrassen - Riesling Federspiel
Scored from 308 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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What reviewers say
“CAN AN AUSTRIAN FEDERSPIEL ALSO AGE LIKE THE BIG BROTHER "SMARAGD"? Yes, it can! This one still shows such a beautiful and shining straw yellow colour. Crushed stones, some smoke, ripe apricot, chamomile and a dash of ginger form a serious bouquet here.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Wachau in Austria, Franz Hirtzberger Steinterrassen - Riesling Federspiel is a white.
1,189 other whites from Austria form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 308 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 309 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 Franz Hirtzberger Steinterrassen - Riesling Federspiel 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 308.
