Wine reviews are full of structured signal hiding in plain sight: a score, a price, a country, a grape, and a paragraph of tasting notes. The Geography of Taste pulls that apart.
Using a large set of Wine Enthusiast reviews, it maps average rating by country, shows which countries fill the catalog, plots price against score to find where quality stops tracking cost, and links grape varieties to the words tasters reach for. Each figure below is interactive. Hover, zoom, and pan.
Figure 1. Mean wine rating by country, mapped across the world, so you can see where the highest-scoring bottles come from.
Figure 2. Which countries fill the cellar, sized by how much of the catalog they account for and shaded by mean rating.
Figure 3. Price against rating on a log scale, with the sweet spot called out. Spending more buys quality only up to a point.
Figure 4. How grape varieties connect to the words tasters use, linking each variety family to its most common descriptors.
Dataset
Built from a large set of Wine Enthusiast reviews, with country, price, rating, and grape variety.
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