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Coverage and gaps
28,068 questions across 106 families, generated systematically from the entity graph rather than guessed at — with an explicit record of which WineHQ can currently answer.
Every intent in this registry has a searchVolume field, and every one of them reads unknown. WineHQ has no keyword volume data and will not fabricate it — a plausible-looking number is worse than an absent one, because someone will plan against it. The field exists so real data can be attached later without a schema change. Priority is instead derived from entity prominence, how strong and answerable the underlying need is, and whether the site can currently answer it — and every priority shows its components.
Where the questions come from
Rather than listing keywords, WineHQ models the shapes of question people ask — what does X taste like, what goes with Y, is X sweet or dry, X versus Z, how do I serve X, why does my wine smell of Q — and expands each across every entity it applies to. That produces a registry that grows automatically with the data, covers the long tail by construction, and cannot quietly omit an entity because nobody thought of it.
Answered well
87%
of catalogued intents have a page that genuinely answers them today
Answered well today
24,479
87% of the registry
Partially answered
3,588
13% of the registry
Not yet answered
1
0% of the registry
By stage of the reader's journey
| Stage | Intents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Just curious | 10,718 | 38% |
| Working something out | 8,777 | 31% |
| practical | 7,962 | 28% |
| About to choose | 611 | 2% |
Highest-priority questions
The top tier, diversified across families so the list is not fifty variations of one question.
- what does Argentine Malbec taste like — What does this style taste like?, Answered well today
- wine with Chicken tikka masala — What wine goes with this food?, Answered well today
- wines like Argentine Malbec — What is similar to this style?, Answered well today
- wines like Cabernet Sauvignon — What is similar to this grape?, Answered well today
- Cabernet Sauvignon vs Merlot — X versus Y, Answered well today
- is Argentine Malbec sweet — Is this style sweet or dry?, Answered well today
- is Cabernet Sauvignon sweet — Is this grape sweet or dry?, Answered well today
- red or white wine with Chicken tikka masala — Red or white with this?, Answered well today
- what does Cabernet Sauvignon taste like — What does this grape taste like?, Answered well today
- Argentine Malbec — What is this wine?, Answered well today
- Argentine Malbec food pairing — What food goes with this style?, Answered well today
- Argentine Malbec vs Barolo — This wine against that one, Answered well today
- Argentine Malbec with Steak — This style with this dish, Answered well today
- Cabernet Sauvignon food pairing — What food goes with this grape?, Answered well today
- Cabernet Sauvignon vs Pinot Noir — This grape against that one, Answered well today
- Cabernet Sauvignon with Roast chicken — This grape with this dish, Answered well today
- what wine is made from Cabernet Sauvignon — What wines are made from this grape?, Answered well today
- how many glasses in a bottle of wine — Calculation and planning questions, Answered well today
- how to store wine — General storage questions, Answered well today
- why does my wine smell like bruised apple — Something is wrong with my wine, Answered well today
- wine for beginners — Beginner questions, Answered well today
- wine serving temperature — General serving questions, Answered well today
- Cabernet Sauvignon — What is this grape?, Answered well today
- does Argentine Malbec age — How long will this keep?, Answered well today
- how is Argentine Malbec made — How is this made?, Answered well today
- is Argentine Malbec acidic — Is this style acidic?, Answered well today
- is Argentine Malbec full bodied — Is this style full-bodied?, Answered well today
- is Argentine Malbec tannic — Is this style tannic?, Answered well today
- is Cabernet Sauvignon acidic — Is this grape acidic?, Answered well today
- is Cabernet Sauvignon full bodied — Is this grape full-bodied?, Answered well today
- is Cabernet Sauvignon tannic — Is this grape tannic?, Answered well today
- what grape is Argentine Malbec — What grape is this made from?, Answered well today
- where is Argentine Malbec from — Where is this from?, Answered well today
- what wine does Abruzzo make — What wine does this place make?, Answered well today
- wines like Abruzzo — What else should I try if I like it?, Answered well today
- Argentina wine — Wine from this country, Answered well today
- Argentine Malbec serving temperature — How should this be served?, Answered well today
- Cabernet Sauvignon serving temperature — How should this grape be served?, Answered well today
- english wine — English and Welsh wine, Answered well today
- is Cabernet Sauvignon red or white — Is this a red or white grape?, Answered well today
Families WineHQ does not fully answer
Some of these are backlog. Others are boundaries — WineHQ answers the answerable half of the question and will never hold the data the rest would need. The distinction matters, so each says which it is.
What does the designation actually guarantee?
425 questionsAnswered in structure everywhere and in detail only where a rule has been recorded. Most stored rules are marked "reported" rather than "verified", because the cahiers des charges and disciplinari have not been retrieved — so this family is deliberately not claimed as fully answered.
Answered by: /regions/[slug] — the designation panel and any stored rules
What is the climate like?
425 questionsReclassified from answered to partial. Most regions carry climate tags, which the engines use, but only a minority carry the prose notes a reader asking this question actually wants.
Answered by: /regions/[slug] — climate and soil notes
What are the soils here?
425 questionsPartial, and deliberately careful. The science model forbids deriving a flavour from a soil, so the answer describes what is there and stops short of what it supposedly tastes of.
Answered by: /regions/[slug] — soil notes where recorded
What is the history here?
425 questionsAnswered by: /history and the region overview
Is this place good value?
425 questionsWineHQ holds no prices, so "expensive" cannot be answered as a number. What it can answer is the useful half: which comparable places do a similar job for less, which the discovery direction already computes.
Answered by: /similar/... — the better-value discovery direction
How do I serve it and what goes with it?
380 questionsAnswered indirectly. A place has no serving temperature; the wines made there do, and the route runs through the style. Marked partial rather than answered because that hop is one the reader has to take.
Answered by: /regions/[slug] → the styles made there → their pairing and serving guidance
What wine should I avoid with this?
236 questionsReclassified from answered to partial. Every dish produces rule-derived clash warnings, but only a minority carry curated, dish-specific guidance about what to avoid — and the difference matters to a reader.
Answered by: /pairing/[food] — clashes and warnings
Is it worth the money?
231 questionsWineHQ holds no price data and does not fabricate any. It can explain what makes a category expensive, which is the useful part of the question.
Answered by: /wine-styles/[slug] — defining factors explain what drives cost
Does the vintage matter?
231 questionsPartial deliberately. WineHQ holds no vintage scoring and will not invent one; what it can answer is whether the style is one where the year is a large or a small variable, which is the more useful half of the question.
Answered by: /vintage — the general framework, and the style ageing note
How long does this keep?
192 questionsReclassified from answered to partial after the demand audit measured it: two thirds of grapes carry no ageing note at all, and a family-level claim of coverage was counting those as answered. Notes are being added prominence-first.
Answered by: /grapes/[slug] — ageing note
How do you say it?
192 questionsCovered for 170 of 175 varieties. The remainder — mostly Georgian varieties and English hybrids — are deliberately omitted rather than guessed at, which is the policy for this field.
Answered by: /grapes/[slug] — pronunciation, where reliably known
Low and no-alcohol wine
1 questionsFast-growing category. WineHQ covers the production method and the technical constraints; it does not review individual products.
Answered by: /wine-styles/low-no-alcohol
Alcohol and health questions
1 questionsHigh demand, and WineHQ deliberately does not chase it. The site publishes no health benefits for alcohol, corrects the sulfite-headache claim where it is factual to do so, and otherwise refers readers to national health guidance. Recorded here so the decision is explicit rather than an oversight.
Answered by: Deliberately limited. See the alcohol and health policy.
Open gaps
Individual questions WineHQ has catalogued and cannot yet answer well. Published rather than hidden, because a coverage claim you cannot check is not a coverage claim.
- alcohol free wine — Partially answered
- why is Argentine Malbec expensive — Partially answered
- why is Barolo expensive — Partially answered
- why is Barossa Shiraz expensive — Partially answered
- why is Brunello di Montalcino expensive — Partially answered
- why is California Chardonnay expensive — Partially answered
- why is Chablis expensive — Partially answered
- why is Champagne expensive — Partially answered
- why is Chianti Classico expensive — Partially answered
- why is English sparkling wine expensive — Partially answered
- why is Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc expensive — Partially answered
- why is Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon expensive — Partially answered
- why is Pinot Grigio expensive — Partially answered
- why is Port expensive — Partially answered
- why is Prosecco expensive — Partially answered
- why is Provence rosé expensive — Partially answered
- why is Red Bordeaux expensive — Partially answered
- why is Red Burgundy expensive — Partially answered
- why is Rioja expensive — Partially answered
- why is Sancerre expensive — Partially answered
- why is White Burgundy expensive — Partially answered
- does vintage matter for Argentine Malbec — Partially answered
- does vintage matter for Barolo — Partially answered
- does vintage matter for Barossa Shiraz — Partially answered
- does vintage matter for Brunello di Montalcino — Partially answered
- does vintage matter for California Chardonnay — Partially answered
- does vintage matter for Chablis — Partially answered
- does vintage matter for Champagne — Partially answered
- does vintage matter for Chianti Classico — Partially answered
- does vintage matter for English sparkling wine — Partially answered
What is deliberately out of scope
Some very high-demand questions are absent by design rather than by omission. Anything requiring prices, stock, critic scores, individual producers or specific vintages is out of scope, and no amount of demand will bring it in. Those questions are answered elsewhere on the internet, generally by people with a commercial reason to answer them.