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The Wine, The Which and The Wardrobe book cover by David Hitchens

Wine has a size. Find yours.

The Wine, The Which & The Wardrobe

A consumer's map to wine - for people who know what they like when they taste it, but want an easier way to choose the bottle.

Two questions. One square. Your Wine Size.

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Stop guessing. Start choosing.

You are in the wine aisle. There are forty bottles in front of you and you have five minutes to choose one. Scores, medals and tasting notes may tell you whether somebody thinks a wine is good. They still do not tell you whether you will enjoy it.

This book offers another way. Every wine can be given a position on a simple 25-square taste map. One direction shows how the wine feels in your mouth. The other shows whether its fruit tastes tart and bright or ripe and juicy.

"I don't know much about wine, but I know what I like." That is not an apology. It is the most useful piece of information you own about wine.

A look inside

Wine clarity you can see

No tasting course. No expert vocabulary. Just a visual way to understand two facts that make choosing wine easier.

Five-step wine body scale from water to single cream
1. What body feels like
Diagram explaining that fruity wine does not necessarily mean sweet wine
2. Fruity does not mean sweet
Two questions combine body and fruit to give one Wine Size square
3. Two questions. One square. Your Wine Size.

This book is for the people in the middle

  • People who enjoy wine but find traditional wine language confusing.
  • People who want to recognise bottles that are likely to suit them.
  • People who want to trade up without leaving the style they already enjoy.
  • People who want a practical map, not a syllabus or an examination.

You do not need to memorise grapes, regions and vintages. You do not need to become an expert. You need a map.

Created in the real world of wine

David Hitchens is a wine retailer and the founder of VinRosetta. The B.A.R. Grid grew from real conversations with customers who could recognise what they enjoyed but lacked a simple language for finding it again. Find My Wine Size brings that same consumer-first system online.

Find your starting square

Your next bottle can make more sense

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