White · Eden Valley · Australia
Yalumba Samuel's Collection Roussanne
Scored from 179 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Australia (1,361 wines).
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What reviewers say
“An exploration of Aussie Rhône-style whites, this Eden Valley Roussanne, named in honour of Yalumba’s founder Samuel Smith, is wild yeast fermented & aged in neutral oak w. bâtonnage. Pale lemon. M+ aroma intensity, ripe w. pineapple, peach, red apple & dried white flowers.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
This wine exhibits wild aromas of pawpaw, white fleshed peach, vanilla custard, cumquat and hints of tea rose. The palate is silky yet defined, with stone fruit layered over fresh grapefruit acidity and a fine almond meal texture.
From Eden Valley in Australia, Yalumba Samuel's Collection Roussanne is a white.
The calibrated figure is built from 179 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 182 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,361 Australian whites.
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 Samuel's Collection Roussanne 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 White · Australia (1,361 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 179.
