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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
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43 wines fit
Looking for: sweetness off-dry; aromatics aromatic.
Showing the 24 closest of 43.
Riesling
meets everythingThe most transparent and longest-lived white variety, made from bone dry to intensely sweet and almost never oaked.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Mosel Riesling
meets everythingThe lightest and most delicate Riesling in the world: 7.5–9% alcohol, piercing acidity, and slate-driven precision.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Alsace Pinot Gris
meets everythingThe full, oily, spicy expression of Pinot Gris — a completely different wine from Italian Pinot Grigio.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Spätlese
meets everything"Late harvest" — the second Prädikat level. Riper grapes than Kabinett, but not necessarily a sweeter wine.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Finger Lakes Riesling
meets everythingNew York State’s cool-climate Riesling — precise, high-acid and made across the sweetness range.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Malvasia
meets everythingA large family of related varieties spread across the Mediterranean, and the sweetest Madeira style (Malmsey).
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Petite Arvine
meets everythingThe Valais’s finest white: high acidity, a saline finish, and made both dry and sweet.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Aidani
meets everythingAn aromatic Aegean variety used in Santorini blends and in Vinsanto.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Hárslevelű
meets everythingTokaj’s second variety, contributing perfume and honeyed richness to Furmint blends.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Muscadelle
meets everythingA minor Bordeaux variety adding floral aromatics to white blends, unrelated to Muscat.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Ortega
meets everythingAn early-ripening German crossing used in England for aromatic and occasionally sweet wines.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Petit Manseng
meets everythingA thick-skinned south-west French variety that raisins on the vine, producing intense sweet wines.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Szamorodni
meets everythingTokaji made from whole bunches without separating the botrytised berries — made either sweet (édes) or dry (száraz).
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Vidal
meets everythingA thick-skinned hybrid that made Canadian icewine possible.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Prosecco
Tank-method sparkling wine from Glera: floral, pear-scented and fresh, with none of Champagne’s bready character — by design.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: 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
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Alsace Riesling
Riesling made fuller, drier and more powerful than in Germany, in France’s driest wine region.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: 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
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Furmint
Hungary’s great white variety: high in acid, smoky and structured, and the backbone of both dry Tokaji and Tokaji Aszú.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Gewürztraminer
The most unmistakably aromatic white variety: lychee, rose and ginger, with low acidity and often a touch of sweetness.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Kabinett
The lightest Prädikat level — a measure of grape ripeness at harvest, not of sweetness in the bottle.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains
The finest member of the Muscat family, and one of very few varieties whose wine actually smells of grapes.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Pfalz Riesling
Riper, fuller German Riesling from the country’s warmest major region.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: can be medium-plus
Rheingau Riesling
Germany’s most structured Riesling, from a long south-facing stretch of the Rhine — fuller and more often dry than the Mosel.
- Sweetness: can be medium
- Aromatic intensity: 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.