Red · Barossa · Australia
Thorn-Clarke William Randell Shiraz
Scored from 448 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
An inky, full-bodied Barossa Shiraz with a fragrant nose of ripe dark cherry, raspberry, smoke, tar and pepper spice, layered with black fruit, dark chocolate and sweet oak. Concentrated yet silky-tannined, finishing long and fruit-driven - a rich, powerful red that pairs well with spiced or hearty fare.
Synthesized from 448Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Espetacular. Um vinho extraordinário. Australiano, com a uva emblemática daquele País, a Shiraz. Graduação alcoólica 15,9 graus. Um dos melhores vinhos que tomei na vida. Sensacional!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The wine is restrained at first but opens up in the glass. Dark cherry and plum are the primary fruit characters with subtle vanilla and chocolate characters adding to the inviting aroma. A delicious rhubarb like character runs the length of the palate. The wine has ample tannin but it is supple and velvety. Restrained vanilla and creamy oak characters fill the midpalate. The wine finishes elegantly with intensity of tannin and flavour.
Thorn-Clarke William Randell Shiraz is Shiraz Syrah grown in Barossa, bottled as a red. At $44.99 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $30–60 band.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 516 other reds from Australia, not against the corpus as a whole. The calibrated figure is built from 448 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 457 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Thorn-Clarke William Randell 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 448.
