Red · Central Victoria · Australia
Mitchelton Print Shiraz
Scored from 136 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
“This was a very worthy successor to the 1990 Jimmy Watson winner, however I was a little worried as the bottle had ullaged to high shoulder. Clear Garnet hue of medium intensity. Decanted for about 20 mins, but it took about 40 to start singing. Heaps of dried spice, ground coffee and earthy notes on the nose... interestingly not as developed as i thought it would be, but on tasting that changed. Leather, barnyard, cigar box and black fruit. Still lots of spice.. and nice length.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Aromas of smokey charcuterie, bright red fruits and a touch of menthol. Medium bodied and complex in the mouth, subtle smokey oak is married to brandied cherries, tar and a touch of cola. Super fine tannins draw out the flavours for a long finish.
Mitchelton Print Shiraz is an Australian red from Central Victoria. The grape is Shiraz Syrah.
The calibrated figure is built from 136 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 141 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 516 other reds from Australia, not against the corpus as a whole.
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 Mitchelton Print 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 136.
