Decision tool
Help me choose
Four plain questions, then three to five bottles — each with the reason it was chosen. No tasting-note poetry, no sponsored placements.
Step 1 of 4
What are you choosing wine for?
- 1The occasion
- 2Your taste
- 3The budget
- 4The dish
Other picks
Starting points we keep, each one a saved set of answers. Open one and the bottles are computed the same way.
- Wine for khorovatsFatty meat off the coals calls for a red with enough tannin to cut through it. Here is what the catalog recommends.
- A gift under 10,000 AMDA bottle to give: own-vineyard estates and family wineries first, all within 10,000 AMD.
- Dry red for beginnersApproachable dry reds without harsh tannins — an easy first step into Armenian red wine, Areni and beyond.
- Try an Armenian karas wineThe karas is the Armenian clay vessel: wine ferments or ages in it the way it did centuries ago. Bottlings made in karas, to start with.
- Wine for a long dinnerTannic reds that ask for food and time: they open over the evening rather than in the first glass.
- Wine for a quiet eveningLight and undemanding bottles — nothing that needs a full table around it.
- Wine before the mealAn aperitif should sharpen the appetite, not fill you up: crisp whites and rosés, nothing heavy.
- Wine for a winter eveningFull-bodied reds — the warmth here comes from ripeness and structure, not from mulling the wine.
- Wine for slow sippingLong skin contact and barrel age change the pace of drinking: these bottles are meant to be followed, not finished.
- Wine for a special occasionEstates working their own land, with barrel age or real structure behind the bottle.
Your bottles
Finish the four questions and they appear here.
- Occasion
- Just browsing
- Taste
- No preference
- Ceiling
- No limit
- Dish
- No dish
Bottle 1
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Bottle 2
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Bottle 3
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Recommendations are computed from catalog data — style, price verdict and producer level — not generated. Only Armenian wines we cover are suggested.