Favorite Grapes · Intelligence

The varietal encyclopaedia.

A living sommelier library. Follow grapes you love, study their dialects across regions, and trace your palate's growing affinities over time.

Cassis, cedar, graphite. The most-planted noble red on earth.

Rose petal, wild cherry, forest floor. The most demanding grape in the world.

Black pepper, smoked meat, violet. A grape of weather and stone.

Sour cherry, dried herb, Tuscan stone. The blood of central Italy.

Tar, rose, dried cherry. Light in colour, monumental in structure.

Leather, dried rose, cured tobacco. Spain's noble red.

Plum, cocoa, soft suede. Bordeaux's gentler half.

Bramble, black pepper, sun-baked fruit. America's adopted hero.

Black cherry, dried herb, warm spice. Zinfandel's southern Italian twin.

Lemon curd, white flower, hazelnut. The most translatable white in the world.