Wine Styles
Every wine style, explained
From dry reds to crystalline sparklers — the styles that shape every cellar and dinner table.
Red Wine
Red wine is made by fermenting grapes with their skins, which impart colour and the grippy tannins that define the style…
White Wine
White wine is usually made by pressing the grapes and fermenting the clear juice without the skins, preserving freshness…
Rosé
Rosé is made by giving red grapes a short skin contact — just enough to blush the wine pink — before pressing. The resul…
Sparkling Wine
Sparkling wine's bubbles come from trapped carbon dioxide, created either by a second fermentation in the bottle (Champa…
Dessert Wine
Dessert wines concentrate sugar through late harvest, botrytis 'noble rot', or drying the grapes, then often finish on a…
Fortified Wine
Fortified wines have grape brandy or neutral spirit added, either during or after fermentation, boosting alcohol and swe…
Natural Wine
Natural wine is a loose, unregulated movement favouring minimal intervention: organically or biodynamically grown grapes…