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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
67 wines fit
Looking for: sweetness off-dry; acidity crisp.
Showing the 24 closest of 67.
Sémillon
meets everythingA thin-skinned, botrytis-prone variety essential to Sauternes and to a unique long-lived dry style in the Hunter Valley.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Touriga Nacional
meets everythingPortugal’s most prized red variety: intensely floral, deeply coloured and firmly structured.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Lambrusco Grasparossa
meets everythingThe most tannic and structured member of the Lambrusco family, producing dark, dry sparkling red.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Sagrantino
meets everythingUmbria’s ferociously tannic variety, with among the highest measured tannin levels of any wine grape.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Sparkling Shiraz
meets everythingAn Australian speciality: dark, fizzy, off-dry red — traditionally drunk with Christmas dinner in a southern-hemisphere summer.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Touriga Franca
meets everythingThe most planted variety in the Douro, contributing perfume, colour and elegance to Port and dry reds.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Trebbiano Toscano
meets everythingA high-yielding, neutral variety planted across Italy and France, where it is called Ugni Blanc.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Albana
meets everythingAn Emilia-Romagna variety with thick skins, well suited to skin contact and to sweet passito wines.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Hárslevelű
meets everythingTokaj’s second variety, contributing perfume and honeyed richness to Furmint blends.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Scheurebe
meets everythingAn aromatic German crossing with a pronounced grapefruit and blackcurrant character.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Tinta Negra
meets everythingThe workhorse variety behind most Madeira, now increasingly acknowledged on labels.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Tinto Cão
meets everythingA low-yielding Douro variety prized for finesse and ageing capacity in Port blends.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Vidal
meets everythingA thick-skinned hybrid that made Canadian icewine possible.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Welschriesling
meets everythingA central European variety unrelated to Riesling, important for Austrian botrytised sweet wines.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Port
Fortified sweet wine from the Douro, made by adding grape spirit mid-fermentation — and a family of quite different styles.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Riesling
The most transparent and longest-lived white variety, made from bone dry to intensely sweet and almost never oaked.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Amarone della Valpolicella
Dried-grape red of enormous concentration: 15–16% alcohol, dried-fruit intensity, and technically dry.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Chenin Blanc
The most versatile white grape there is: dry, off-dry, sweet or sparkling, and capable of ageing for decades.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Mosel Riesling
The lightest and most delicate Riesling in the world: 7.5–9% alcohol, piercing acidity, and slate-driven precision.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Tawny Port
Cask-aged Port that turns amber and nutty through slow oxidation — and, with an age indication, one of the great value propositions in fine wine.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Vintage Port
The pinnacle: Port from a single exceptional year, bottled young and matured in bottle for decades.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Alsace Pinot Gris
The full, oily, spicy expression of Pinot Gris — a completely different wine from Italian Pinot Grigio.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore
Prosecco from the steep DOCG hillsides between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene — the qualitative heart of the category.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
Corvina
Valpolicella’s principal variety: pale, sour-cherry-scented and the foundation of Amarone.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Acidity: can be medium-plus
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.