substitutes
Wine substitutes
Out of wine? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to wine in flavor space. Champagne is closest at 73%.
- 01Champagne73% flavor match
- 02Port Wine68% flavor match
- 03Rose Wine62% flavor match
- 04Plum Wine60% flavor match
- 05Red Wine56% flavor match
- 06Sparkling Wine54% flavor match
- 07Sherry51% flavor match
- 08White Wine45% flavor match
Cooking with wine?
Paste your recipe into Mise — we'll find every ingredient as a real product you can buy, and swap the ones you can't, like wine, for the closest match in stock.
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Each match is the nearest neighbour to wine in Epicure, a food-science model mapping the aroma compounds of ~1,790 ingredients across 4 million recipes. The percentage is their flavor-space similarity. Taste as you go — substitutes shift texture and intensity too.
Flavor data: Epicure (Radzikowski & Chen, 2026), arXiv:2605.22391, CC-BY-4.0.