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Describe the wine you want rather than naming one. Leave anything you do not care about unset — an unset axis is genuinely unconstrained, not quietly defaulted.
Wine is not two-dimensional. Plotting it on a plane produces a picture that looks explanatory while hiding the fourteen axes the designer discarded to make it fit, and two wines that end up adjacent may have nothing in common. So this sets the dimensions you care about, leaves the rest alone, and tells you for every result which of your requirements it actually meets. See the taste model.
Or just say what you want
Each of these sets the axes below for you, and says what it took you to mean.
White
Sparkling
Start from a common request
Or set it yourself
82 wines fit
Looking for: acidity gentle.
Showing the 24 closest of 82.
Condrieu
meets everythingThe benchmark Viognier: full-bodied, dry and extravagantly scented of apricot and honeysuckle.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Gewürztraminer
meets everythingThe most unmistakably aromatic white variety: lychee, rose and ginger, with low acidity and often a touch of sweetness.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Viognier
meets everythingA full-bodied, apricot-and-honeysuckle-scented Rhône variety that nearly disappeared in the 1960s.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Grenache Blanc
meets everythingA white mutation of Grenache producing full-bodied, low-acid Mediterranean whites.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Marsanne
meets everythingA full-bodied northern Rhône white giving waxy, nutty wines that age remarkably well.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Muscat of Alexandria
meets everythingA coarser but historically vital member of the Muscat family, and parent of many varieties.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Palomino Fino
meets everythingThe neutral, low-acid grape of sherry, whose character comes almost entirely from what happens after fermentation.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Pedro Ximénez
meets everythingThe grape behind the darkest and sweetest sherry, made from sun-dried grapes.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Pedro Ximénez sherry
meets everythingAlmost-black sherry from sun-dried grapes — closer to raisin syrup than to wine, and one of the few things that works with chocolate.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Argentine Malbec
Mendoza’s velvet-textured, violet-scented red — soft, generous and the wine that made Malbec international.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Barossa Shiraz
Dense, chocolatey, high-alcohol Shiraz from some of the oldest producing vines on earth.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
California Chardonnay
The style that defined "buttery Chardonnay" — ripe stone fruit, vanilla and cream — though the best modern examples are far more restrained.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Malbec
A dark, velvety variety that struggled in its French homeland and became Argentina’s national grape.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Merlot
A plush, plum-scented Bordeaux variety that ripens earlier than Cabernet Sauvignon and produces softer, rounder wine.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
The New World Cabernet benchmark: ripe cassis and cocoa, plush tannin, generous new oak and high alcohol.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Pinot Gris
A pink-skinned mutation of Pinot Noir that makes two utterly different wines depending on whether the label says Gris or Grigio.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Prosecco
Tank-method sparkling wine from Glera: floral, pear-scented and fresh, with none of Champagne’s bready character — by design.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Shiraz
The Australian name for Syrah, used to signal the riper, fuller, sweeter-fruited style the country made famous.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Syrah
A peppery, dark-fruited variety that produces two recognisably different wines depending on climate — and two different names to match.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Tempranillo
Spain’s leading red variety, giving savoury, leather-and-cherry wines that are shaped as much by oak ageing as by the grape itself.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
California Cabernet Sauvignon
The broad statewide category — a very wide quality range, from Central Valley volume wine to serious coastal bottlings.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
The southern Rhône’s flagship: a warm, powerful, herb-scented Grenache-led blend from stony vineyards near Avignon.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Glera
The grape of Prosecco: neutral, floral and low in acid, designed for tank-method sparkling wine.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
Grenache
A pale, high-alcohol, sweetly fruited Mediterranean variety that anchors Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Priorat.
- Acidity: can be low-medium
What the results mean
A wine matches an axis when its recorded range covers the level you asked for, not when its midpoint happens to land there. Asking for a medium-bodied red returns every red capable of being medium-bodied, which is the honest answer: a category genuinely spans a range, and pretending otherwise would hide most of what you could actually buy.
Where a wine misses one of your requirements it is still shown if it is close, with the miss marked. A near-match presented openly is more useful than a shorter list that quietly drops it — or, worse, one that includes it and says nothing.