How to navigate the site

There are endless ways to search for your wine. To help, you will find various wine terminology to assist in navigating our website below with a brief note explaining each method. We hope you enjoy using the site as much as we have enjoyed making it.

How to search for your wines

You can find your wines by using a number of filters (scroll down to the products below to find the filter on the desktop version or by clicking 'Filter By' on the mobile site), either on their own or in combination with other filters, making you search as broad or specific as you like. The filters we offer are as follows and they are explained in more detail below:

• Type
• Country
• Region
• Sub-Region
• Producer
• Wine
• Price
• Average Critic Score
• Value Score
• Grape Families
• Grapes and Blends
• Vintage
  

Wine Types

These are the self-explanatory terms we use to describe the wine type. These are commonly used terms in the industry.  

Countries, Regions and Sub Regions

To enhance our website navigation, we divide our wines into three geographic categories which can all be used to search for individual wines, including the individual wines themselves. These are:

Producer

Customers can search for the individual producer noting that in some cases producers have multiple individual wines. Or search by producer with another filter. Please note that we abbreviate 'Chateau' to 'Ch.' and 'Domaine' to 'Dom.' on the website.

Wine

You can filter by the individual wine or alternatively, if you know what you are looking for, we recommend typing this in the search bar which will pick out key words and letter combinations to return the wines that match your search.

On the desktop version of the site, you will find the search bar either at the top of the page on the grey banner or above where the wines start being displayed. The search function on the mobile version can be found by clicking the 'Menu' icon at the top left of the page (typically known as the 'burger' or above where the wines start being displayed.

Price

Price is an important consideration of buying wine. Customers can search based on a price range or a specific price and again this filter can also be used in conjunction with other filters.

Average Critic Score

Another of our selection criteria is the average critic score. As explained in more detail here we use an average critic score (recognising respected professional critics) rather than just the best score as one way to assess the quality of the wine. Customers can search based on average critic scores or in conjunction with other filters.

Value Score

We think our value score concept is not only unique, but also very helpful as a criteria in selecting the wine but also for the customer to have a reasonable way of thinking about (relative) value for money, especially when comparing other purchase options.  More detail about how our value score works can be found here. Customers can search based on value scores or in conjunction with other filters.

Grapes and Blends

There are more than a thousand grape varieties used in commercial wine production. But there maybe say only be up to 20 varieties that consumers have ever heard of. In addition, there are multiple grape combinations or blends in various percentages that the label often doesn’t even mention. This makes finding what consumers like and what food to match with them even harder. You will find below each wine (where possible) a very useful percentage breakdown of the grapes.

Our approach is to identify the primary grape varieties and cluster them together with the main blending combinations to make it easier to identify wine styles and food matches. Within this approach we discriminate, where relevant, between geographic and climatic differences. It's not perfect but we hope this is an understandable and useful structure.

We group these varieties and blends within the categories of red, white, rose, sweet white, sparkling and fortified so that wine (and food) matches are easier to identify. Within each grape “family” we identify general flavour profiles and ideas for food pairing. Food pairing options are also shown in the regions or sub regions. 

Vintage

To increase the likelihood of you finding the best wine at great value we do not see much value in offering wines that are promoted as “good for the vintage”. As a result, one of our selection criteria is that we don’t buy poor, “off” or average vintages.  There are plenty of wines to choose from and customers can search based on individual or multiple vintages or in conjunction with other filters.