Red · Barossa Valley · Australia
Penfolds RWT Bin 798 Shiraz
Scored from 932 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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Tasting profile
A bold, full-bodied Barossa Shiraz with pepper and spice on the nose and ripe black fruits like cherry, blackberry, and blackcurrant layered with notes of chocolate. Reviewers praise its balance of big Aussie boldness and finesse, chalky tannins, well-structured oak, and a long, lush finish with strong cellaring potential.
Synthesized from 932Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“One of my favorite wines and never disappoints. Always a great balance of big boldness of an Aussie red with finesse in structure. Yummy goodness.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Penfolds RWT Bin 798 Shiraz is an Australian red from Barossa Valley.
516 other reds from Australia form the cohort it is ranked inside. 932 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 945 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Penfolds RWT Bin 798 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 932.
