Fortified · Paso Robles · United States
Tarrica Olde Shandon Port Works Syrah
Scored from 30 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · United States (61 wines).
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Tasting profile
A port-style Syrah with a chocolate and raisin-tinged nose, leaning more port than table wine, pouring a deep claret with strong legs. Velvety smooth and balanced, with fortified cherry, vanilla, and oak notes and a sweetness that stays in check, finishing clean rather than hot.
Synthesized from 30Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Combination of syrah and port, like label says, but it's more like port.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Tarrica Olde Shandon Port Works Syrah is a fortified wine from Paso Robles, the United States.
Only 30 of its Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 31 reviewers with at least two ratings feeds the raw-average track. 60 other fortified wines from the United States 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 Tarrica Olde Shandon Port Works Syrah 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 Fortified · United States (61 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 30.
Cohort: Fortified · United States
