Our user-friendly Vino Chart
No one should need to take a class to enjoy wine.
Our wine flavor comparison tool Vino Chart allows you, the wine lover, to easily understand wines based on their flavor profiles, and it doesn't require you to spend years of academic wine studies to do it. Whether you're a wine novice or wine pro, you can use the Vino Chart to think about differences between wines and decide which you prefer, and when.
Fruit and complexity. That's it!
Vino Chart looks at wines based on how much FRUIT and non-fruit flavors or
COMPLEXITY each wine has. That's it.
Wines with richer, brighter, and more varied fruit flavors are higher up on the chart map, and wines with deeper and more-layered complexity are further to the right side of the chart. This wine chart works with both red and white wines.
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An easier way to compare wines
Using our framework, we can see that there are general wine
flavor profiles for different grapes and regions.
For example, even though every good Cabernet Sauvignon from California will have its own unique blend of fruit and non-fruit flavors and aromas, most share a flavor profile marked by bold fruit and moderately high complexity. So on our chart, most California Cabernet Sauvignons are either BRIGHT wines or RICH wines.
Same grapes, different wines
The Vino Volo Wine Chart shows that flavor is not determined only by the grape variety, but also by the region where the grape is grown and how wine is made in that region.
A case in point is Australian Shiraz versus Northern Rhone Syrah. Both use the same Syrah (or Shiraz) grape, but the two have very different climates and use different techniques to make their wines.
As a result, Australia typically creates BRIGHT Syrah wines full of fruit, while the northern Rhone of France tends make BROODING Syrahs with muted fruit wrapped in dark, nonfruit flavors and aromas like smoke, leather, tar, and bacon fat.
