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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.
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Each of these sets the axes below for you, and says what it took you to mean.
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82 wines fit
Looking for: fruit exuberant; savouriness mostly fruit.
Showing the 24 closest of 82.
Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
meets everythingExplosively aromatic passionfruit, gooseberry and cut grass — a flavour that had no real precedent when it appeared in the 1980s.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
California Cabernet Sauvignon
meets everythingThe broad statewide category — a very wide quality range, from Central Valley volume wine to serious coastal bottlings.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Primitivo
meets everythingThe Puglian name for the variety Californians call Zinfandel: ripe, high in alcohol, and generous with dark jammy fruit.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Sauternes
meets everythingThe benchmark botrytised sweet wine: honey, apricot and saffron, held together by piercing acidity.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Zinfandel
meets everythingThe Californian name for the variety known in Puglia as Primitivo — brambly, high in alcohol, and the basis of white Zinfandel.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Canadian Icewine
meets everythingIntensely sweet wine from grapes picked and pressed while naturally frozen on the vine.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Condrieu
meets everythingThe benchmark Viognier: full-bodied, dry and extravagantly scented of apricot and honeysuckle.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: 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.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Moscato d’Asti
meets everythingLightly sparkling, grapey and sweet at around 5.5% alcohol — one of the few genuinely low-alcohol wines that tastes complete.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains
meets everythingThe finest member of the Muscat family, and one of very few varieties whose wine actually smells of grapes.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Primitivo di Manduria
meets everythingThe benchmark Primitivo appellation, from old bush vines on the Salento peninsula.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Ruby Port
meets everythingThe entry tier: young, dark, fruit-driven Port aged briefly in large vessels to preserve primary fruit.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Spätlese
meets everything"Late harvest" — the second Prädikat level. Riper grapes than Kabinett, but not necessarily a sweeter wine.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Viognier
meets everythingA full-bodied, apricot-and-honeysuckle-scented Rhône variety that nearly disappeared in the 1960s.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Asti
meets everythingThe fully sparkling Muscat of Piedmont — sweet, grapey and frothy, and much improved since its Asti Spumante days.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Auslese
meets everything"Selected harvest" — individually selected very ripe bunches, often with some botrytis. Usually, though not always, sweet.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Austrian botrytis sweet wine
meets everythingBotrytised sweet wines from around the Neusiedlersee — reliable, high in acid, and consistently better value than Sauternes.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Beerenauslese
meets everything"Selected berry harvest" — individual botrytised berries picked by hand, producing a concentrated dessert wine.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Eiswein
meets everythingGrapes frozen on the vine and pressed while still frozen — pure, piercing fruit with none of botrytis’s honeyed character.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Moscatel de Setúbal
meets everythingFortified Muscat macerated on its skins for months — intensely orange-peel-scented and raisiny.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Muscat of Alexandria
meets everythingA coarser but historically vital member of the Muscat family, and parent of many varieties.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Petite Sirah
meets everythingA Syrah offspring producing inky, tannic wines — and not, despite the name, a smaller version of Syrah.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Recioto della Valpolicella
meets everythingThe sweet original from which Amarone accidentally descended — dried Corvina grapes, fermentation stopped early.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: can be low-medium
Sparkling Shiraz
meets everythingAn Australian speciality: dark, fizzy, off-dry red — traditionally drunk with Christmas dinner in a southern-hemisphere summer.
- Fruit intensity: can be high
- Savoury character: 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.