Red · Südost-Australien · Australien
Rawson's Retreat Shiraz - Cabernet
Scored from 2,561 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · Australien (22 wines).
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What reviewers say
“Shiraz Saturday. Rawson's Retreat, SE Australia, a Penfolds entry brand estb. 1995, named after Chris Rawson Penfold's family cottage (built 1985). Shiraz Cabernet, 60/40, fermented separately in SS, aged in French, American & SS, then blended. Deep ruby.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Aromas of red currant and summer pudding fruits with a lift of varietal cabernet, and appealing spicy shiraz. Youthful and lively fruit flavours of strawberry, raspberry, and loganberry follow from the nose. A medium bodied wine with a sweet-fruited mid-palate and great balance. Fine tannins ensure a soft and rounded mouthfeel.
Rawson's Retreat Shiraz - Cabernet is a red from Südost-Australien, Australia, made from Cabernet Sauvignon.
The calibrated figure is built from 2,561 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 2,650 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 21 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 Rawson's Retreat Shiraz - Cabernet 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 · Australien (22 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 2,561.
