Fortified · South Australia · Australia
Yalumba Antique Tawny
Scored from 110 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Australia (43 wines).
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Tasting profile
Smooth and fuller-bodied with high-intensity aromas and flavors of honey, toffee, and caramel layered over raisin, fig, prune, and dried apricot. Reviewers find it complex and sweet but not cloying, finishing with notes of candied apple, maple syrup, and a nutty, creamy character.
Synthesized from 110Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Bright, clear and orange-brown colour. High intensity aroma of honey, toffee and caramel. High intensity flavour of toffee, caramel and honey with very high sweetness.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Yalumba Antique Tawny is an Australian fortified wine from South Australia. The blend is Grenache Noir, Mourvedre, Muscadelle and Shiraz Syrah. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $29.99, which puts the bottle in the $15–30 band.
42 other fortified wines from Australia form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 110 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 115 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 Yalumba Antique Tawny 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 · Australia (43 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 110.
Cohort: Fortified · Australia
