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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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67 wines fit
Looking for: body light; tannin barely any.
Showing the 24 closest of 67.
Provence rosé
meets everythingThe pale, dry, herb-scented rosé that set the international template for pink wine.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Beaujolais
meets everythingLight, juicy Gamay, often made by carbonic maceration — the archetypal chillable red.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Valpolicella
meets everythingLight, high-acid, sour-cherry red from the hills north of Verona — the fresh counterpart to Amarone.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Cinsault
meets everythingA pale, low-tannin southern French variety, important in rosé and enjoying a revival as a light red.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Frappato
meets everythingA pale, intensely floral Sicilian variety making light, fragrant reds best served slightly chilled.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Koshu
meets everythingJapan’s delicate native white: low in alcohol, subtle, and built around restraint.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
País
meets everythingThe first variety planted in the Americas, producing pale, light, savoury reds from very old dry-farmed vines in Chile.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Grolleau
meets everythingA high-yielding Loire variety used principally for Rosé d’Anjou.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Molinara
meets everythingA pale, high-acid Valpolicella variety, now optional in the blend and much reduced in plantings.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Portugieser
meets everythingA light, soft, early-ripening red grown in Germany, Austria and Hungary — and not Portuguese.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Tibouren
meets everythingA Provençal variety used for characterful, savoury rosé — the grape behind the small proportion of Provence pink that tastes of something other than pale restraint.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Barbera
Piedmont’s everyday red: deeply coloured, very high in acid, low in tannin and immediately drinkable.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Gamay
Beaujolais’ grape: pale, juicy, low in tannin and high in acid, with a distinctive violet-and-cherry lift.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
English sparkling rosé
Pink traditional-method sparkling from Pinot Noir and Meunier — red-fruited, high in acid and better with food than its reputation.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Pinot Meunier
The third Champagne grape: earlier-ripening and more frost-tolerant than Pinot Noir, contributing fruit and approachability.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
White Zinfandel
A sweet pink wine created by accident in the 1970s that sold in enormous quantity — and inadvertently saved California’s old Zinfandel vineyards.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Brda Rebula
Slovenia’s signature white from the hills bordering Friuli — made fresh, or amber after months on skins.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
English still Pinot Noir
A small but real category: pale, high-acid, red-fruited Pinot Noir from the warmest English sites in the warmest years.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
English still rosé
Pale, sharply fresh still rosé, usually from Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Garnacha rosado
Spain’s fuller, deeper-coloured dry rosé, principally from Navarra and Rioja — more red-fruit weight than Provence.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Istrian Malvazija
Istria’s white, made either fresh and floral or amber and tannic after months on skins.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Malvazija Istarska
Istria’s signature white, made both fresh and with long skin contact.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Ribolla Gialla
A Friulian and Slovenian variety central to the modern orange-wine movement.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: can be low-medium
Tsolikouri
Western Georgia’s most planted white variety, used for both fresh modern whites and lighter Imeretian qvevri wines.
- Body: can be low-medium
- Tannin: 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.