Wine word search word list

42 words, hand-picked to fit a 15×15 grid. Free to use in any puzzle you make, including ones you sell. One thing to know if you build grids by hand: CORK sits inside CORKSCREW, GRAPE sits inside GRAPEVINE — never put both in the same puzzle, or the shorter one is found twice. The generator keeps them apart automatically.

The button opens the free generator with this theme selected. It draws 15 words per puzzle and can make hundreds of different puzzles from this list without repeating a set — a 100-puzzle book comes to 124 pages at 6 × 9.

The list

• Barrel
• Bordeaux
• Bottle
• Bouquet
• Burgundy
• Cabernet
• Cellar
• Champagne
• Chardonnay
• Chianti
• Cluster
• Cork
• Corkscrew
• Decanter
• Fermentation
• Finish
• Glass
• Grape
• Grapevine
• Harvest
• Label
• Merlot
• Napa
• Oak
• Palate
• Pinot
• Riesling
• Rioja
• Sauvignon
• Sommelier
• Sparkling
• Swirl
• Syrah
• Tannin
• Tasting
• Terroir
• Tuscany
• Vineyard
• Vintage
• Wine
• Yeast
• Zinfandel

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Crossword clues for every word

The same list with a plain-language clue for each word — written for the crossword type, and free to use in a grid you build yourself. Copy the lines as they are (word — clue) into the generator's own-list box and it makes the crossword for you.

• Barrel — Wooden cask used to age wine before bottling
• Bordeaux — French wine region famous for cabernet and merlot blends
• Bottle — Holds the milk
• Bouquet — Bunch of flowers
• Burgundy — French wine region known for pinot noir and chardonnay
• Cabernet — Bold red grape variety often paired with steak
• Cellar — Cool underground room used to store wine bottles
• Champagne — Sparkling wine for the toast
• Chardonnay — Popular white grape variety, sometimes aged in oak
• Chianti — Italian red wine traditionally from the Tuscany region
• Cluster — Bunch of grapes still attached to their stems
• Cork — Stopper pulled from a bottle before pouring
• Corkscrew — Spiral tool used to pull a stopper from a bottle
• Decanter — Glass vessel wine is poured into to breathe
• Fermentation — Process where yeast turns grape sugar into alcohol
• Finish — Lingering flavor a wine leaves after swallowing
• Glass — Stemmed vessel wine is served and sipped from
• Grape — Fruit that becomes wine
• Grapevine — Woody climbing plant that produces clusters for wine
• Harvest — Gathering in the crops
• Label — Printed paper glued to a bottle naming its contents
• Merlot — Soft red grape variety often blended with cabernet
• Napa — California valley famous for wineries
• Oak — Sturdy tree whose fruit is the acorn
• Palate — A taster's sense of flavor on the tongue
• Pinot — French grape name meaning pinecone, as in noir or grigio
• Riesling — Aromatic white grape variety often sweet or crisp
• Rioja — Spanish wine region known for tempranillo grapes
• Sauvignon — Crisp white grape variety often paired with blanc
• Sommelier — Trained expert who recommends and serves wine
• Sparkling — Style of wine with bubbles from added carbon dioxide
• Swirl — Gentle circular motion used to release a wine's aroma
• Syrah — Bold dark-skinned grape variety, also called shiraz
• Tannin — Compound that gives red wine its dry, puckering feel
• Tasting — Event where several wines are sampled and compared
• Terroir — Combination of soil and climate that shapes a wine's flavor
• Tuscany — Italian wine region known for chianti
• Vineyard — Land planted with rows of grapevines for wine
• Vintage — Year in which a wine's grapes were harvested
• Wine — Fermented drink made from crushed grapes
• Yeast — Microorganism that converts sugar into alcohol
• Zinfandel — Grape variety behind both bold reds and blush pinks

A puzzle made from it

Medium difficulty: across, down and diagonals, nothing backwards. Every word appears exactly once — the generator checks the finished grid rather than assuming. Solutions are in the book, not on this page.