Talking about wine is like talking about fruit in general. One needs to be able to compare apples to apples, and distinguish cherry from banana, but also lemon from grapefruit.

This is why winestyles are important and necessary, because we want to classify categorize and talk about wines based on their TASTE characteristics.

Wines can come from different wine areas, have a different grape mix .. and still belong to the same style class. And, as taste is subjective, there will always be debate over style categories and the grey zones between them.

Please appreciate that Wine Styles can only be useful if we think in terms of the 80/20 rule - and not focus on the exceptions that set the rules.
You can see our shared tasting notes by style here.

Note: Wine Styles are an extremely difficult subject, and every book or website has its own version of this.
The WARPA! Team has researched this thoroughly and settled for an early version of the ISWN Wine Style Framework. These web pages follow the "Sommelier" framework (as this provides more detail than the more simple "Popular" framework.
If you have questions or constructive comments about this, please send them to wsf@iswn.org or to us at info@warpa.com.

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