Red · Margaret River · Australia
Vasse Felix Shiraz
Scored from 456 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
“Med purple in the glass. This Shiraz apparently spent 11 months in old oak along and also went through 30% carbonic maceration. Red fruits in the nose along with green notes. Felt better in the palate. Red fruits again, strawberry, raspberry along with some black fruits. A bit spicy and savory. Tannins are more prominent in this Shiraz. Med plus body and noticeable acidity. Red fruits and oak linger on a decent finish. This perhaps need some more time to come together. 14% ABV.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
It has deep red with a vibrant, ruby hue. It has crust beneath bright cranberry and raspberry fruit aromas. Hints of licorice, chocolate, dark spice and berry liqueur emerge and build the enticing character.It has bright plum and raspberry fruit flavours supported by a sustained fruit sweetness and fine, ripe drying tannins. Beautifully balanced, fluid and effortless.
Vasse Felix Shiraz is Shiraz Syrah grown in Margaret River, bottled as a red.
The calibrated figure is built from 456 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 466 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 516 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 Vasse Felix 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 456.
