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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.
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95 wines fit
Looking for: body very full; fruit pronounced.
Showing the 24 closest of 95.
Priorat
meets everythingDense, mineral Garnacha and Cariñena from steep slate terraces in Catalonia — one of only two Spanish regions at the top classification tier.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Ribera del Duero
meets everythingTempranillo from a high, extreme plateau — darker, denser and more structured than Rioja.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Super Tuscan
meets everythingA commercial category rather than an appellation: ambitious Tuscan reds that fell outside the DOC rules, usually built on Bordeaux varieties.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Douro red
meets everythingUnfortified dry red from the Port vineyards — dense, floral and mineral, and one of the most improved categories in Europe.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Tannat
meets everythingOne of the most tannic wine grapes in commercial use, native to south-west France and the national variety of Uruguay.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Uruguayan Tannat
meets everythingTannat made rounder and more approachable than in its French home — Uruguay’s national red.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Alicante Bouschet
meets everythingA red-fleshed nineteenth-century French crossing, now most important in the Alentejo.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Madiran
meets everythingTannat from south-west France: among the most tannic red wines made anywhere, and the birthplace of micro-oxygenation.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Montefalco Sagrantino
meets everythingUmbria’s ferociously tannic red — among the highest measured tannin concentrations of any wine grape.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Petit Verdot
meets everythingA late-ripening Bordeaux variety used in small proportions for colour, tannin and violet aromatics.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Sagrantino
meets everythingUmbria’s ferociously tannic variety, with among the highest measured tannin levels of any wine grape.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Vin Santo
meets everythingTuscany’s dried-grape dessert wine, aged for years in small sealed barrels — nutty, oxidative and traditionally drunk with cantucci.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Argentine Malbec
Mendoza’s velvet-textured, violet-scented red — soft, generous and the wine that made Malbec international.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Barossa Shiraz
Dense, chocolatey, high-alcohol Shiraz from some of the oldest producing vines on earth.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Brunello di Montalcino
Pure Sangiovese from a warm Tuscan hill town, aged for years before release — Italy’s most powerful expression of the grape.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Cabernet Sauvignon
The world’s most planted red wine grape: thick-skinned, tannic and blackcurrant-scented, and the backbone of Bordeaux’s left bank.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
California Chardonnay
The style that defined "buttery Chardonnay" — ripe stone fruit, vanilla and cream — though the best modern examples are far more restrained.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Malbec
A dark, velvety variety that struggled in its French homeland and became Argentina’s national grape.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Merlot
A plush, plum-scented Bordeaux variety that ripens earlier than Cabernet Sauvignon and produces softer, rounder wine.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
The New World Cabernet benchmark: ripe cassis and cocoa, plush tannin, generous new oak and high alcohol.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: 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.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Shiraz
The Australian name for Syrah, used to signal the riper, fuller, sweeter-fruited style the country made famous.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Syrah
A peppery, dark-fruited variety that produces two recognisably different wines depending on climate — and two different names to match.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit intensity: can be medium-plus
Amarone della Valpolicella
Dried-grape red of enormous concentration: 15–16% alcohol, dried-fruit intensity, and technically dry.
- Body: can be high
- Fruit 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.