Red · South Australia · Australia
Penfolds St. Henri Shiraz
Scored from 5,051 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 full-bodied, restrained old-world style Shiraz with expressive dark fruit, plum, cherry, pepper, and cacao notes framed by smooth, round tannins and a long finish. Complex, balanced, and built to age, with a fragrant nose and a sophisticated, polished character.
Synthesized from 5,051Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Big expressive offering. I think this is Australia at its best. Dark fruit with spice and great balance. Full bodied with a long finish.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Penfolds St. Henri Shiraz is a red from South Australia, Australia.
5,051 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 5,209 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. 516 other reds from Australia form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 St. Henri 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 5,051.
