CellarCharts is built with the goal of making wine more discoverable. The problem is that most wine data lives in silos: a critic score here, a price there, and a vague sense of reputation somewhere else.
WineRadar connects these dots. It plots every wine across five independent axes: Critics, Value, Prestige, Availability, and Popularity so the shape of the chart becomes the insight. All five metrics are normalized to a common 0-1 scale, recalculated regularly from live market data, and form a direct apples-to-apples (grapes-to-grapes?) comparison across our entire catalog of 55,000+ wines.
Because these analytics are embedded into every aspect of CellarCharts - AI search, recommendations, browse, and similar wines - they help you surface new discoveries and find exactly what you are looking for. Browse for the shapes you are drawn to, surface bottles with profiles that match what you already love, or ask the search engine to find something you have never seen before.
Is this wine delivering more value than its peers?
We compare each wine's average critic ratings against its market price and then rank it among its peers. Each wine is measured against the full global catalog, and when a region has enough data, a regional comparison is blended in as well. So a well-priced Burgundy is evaluated against all wines and against other Burgundies. The result surfaces wines that not only have good QPR, but that also outperform their peer group.
High Value reflects strong performance for the money. Many under-the-radar wines score very highly in value. On the other hand, most "investment grade" wines score highly in all areas except value (giving them a distinctive "flat top" shape).
How consistent, durable, and well-known is this producer?
Prestige is a producer-level metric built from a weighted blend of four signals: critic reviews across their portfolio, review coverage (total number of reviews compared against all other producers), rating consistency across all wines and vintages, and popularity within CellarCharts. This rating is then normalized to 0-1 across all producers with enough data points to generate a ranking.
High Prestige means an established, well-reviewed producer. Lower Prestige often points to newer or less-covered estates, which is exactly where many of the most exciting discoveries live.
This axis helps distinguish between established icons and emerging talent.
How easy is it to buy this wine?
We count in-stock listings across our retail network, rank all wines by that count, and normalize the rank to a 0-1 percentile scale. Wines stocked at many retailers score near the top, while wines without any listings are unranked on this metric.
There is no good or bad value here. High availability may signal that you can easily buy more if you like it, while low availability may indicate something scarce and worth collecting.
How much attention is this wine receiving within CellarCharts?
Popularity reflects activity and interest across the platform. It uses a blend of search behavior, editorial signals, and community engagement around a wine and its producer. Wines and producers generating more views, searches, and engagement score higher.
High Popularity means a wine is already on many people's radar. Low Popularity often flags lesser-known bottles, and for discovery-minded drinkers, that is where the most interesting territory tends to be.
How do professional wine critics feel about this wine?
Every available critic score for this wine across all vintages is aggregated into a single average, then mapped to our 0-1 scale using a 70-98 point range (i.e., a wine with an average of 75 points would get a 0, and a wine with an average of 98 points would get a 1). Unlike other WineRadar axes, this is an absolute measure rather than a percentile: a wine averaging 95 points will always score high, regardless of how many wines are in the database.
The score reflects critical quality directly, so it stays stable as the catalog grows.
All things being equal, a more "full" chart signals a more desirable wine, but that is not always the case.
There are no good or bad scores, only shapes that tell stories. A wine with sky-high Critic Scores and rock-bottom Availability might be a cult bottle worth seeking out. A wine with modest Prestige but strong Value could be an under-the-radar producer making exceptional wine before the world catches on. High Availability might mean you can easily stock a case for weeknight dinners; low Availability might mean you have found something rare.
The point is discovery. Because WineRadar analytics are deeply embedded into all aspects of CellarCharts, they enable you to explore and discover the world of wine in a richer, more useful way.