Red · Barossa Valley · Australia
Torbreck Old Vines Grenache - Shiraz - Mourvedre
Scored from 2,542 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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What reviewers say
“Wat een koning!!! Innemende charismatische heer op leeftijd van statuur met vilein randje. Geopend op de sterfdag van Paul van Vliet en daar is deze karaktervolle mastodont een mooi eerbetoon aan.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It is soft and intense and offers plenty of fruit and ripe tannins, culminating in a slight sweetness filled aftertaste.
From Barossa Valley in Australia, Torbreck Old Vines Grenache - Shiraz - Mourvedre is a red. It blends Grenache Noir, Mataro and Shiraz Syrah.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 517 Australian reds. 2,542 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 2,610 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 Torbreck Old Vines Grenache - Shiraz - Mourvedre 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 2,542.
