Cellar Hands

with palate.

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Join a network of cellar hands shaping how wine is made.

Get paid for your hands, cellar instincts, and working judgment.

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How it works

01

Apply

Share your cellar record and complete a short working-vintage submission.

02

Join the network

Selected cellar hands join a curated network of tasters with exceptional floor judgment.

03

Get matched

When a cellar fits your hands, we'll reach out with timeline, scope, and pay. Paid per shift.

What you'll do

Work the cellar floor

Rack, top, and run punchdowns to briefs that set timing, volume, and vessel.

Range across real vessels

Barrels, tanks, amphorae, presses, cellar floors.

Log clean numbers

Temperatures, densities, additions, on time, to spec. No interpretation required unless specified.

Hold the bar across a vintage

Sanitation, intake, pressing, topping. Consistent every shift.

What you get

Paid briefs up to $100/hr. Frontier cellar access. Your record stays with you. Shift work, on your schedule.

The right fit

Trained hands

Timing, temperature, cleanliness. The kit matters less than the hands on it.

Range

Record shows variety across vessels and vintages.

Brief discipline

Able to follow cellar direction and work within clear parameters.

Reliable delivery

Clean vessels. Consistent logging. Strong attention to detail.

Real-world environments

Comfortable working across cellars, crush pads, presses, and barrel halls.

Palate in the loop.

Labs hires the small network of tasters who decide what's actually good.

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FAQs

The research arm of Oenra. We partner with frontier wineries and importers to evaluate colour, aroma, structure, and finish through the lens of the human palate. The Network is who we hire for that work.
Share your cellar record and complete a short working-vintage submission. Selected cellar hands join the network and are matched with paid briefs as work arises.
Up to $100/hr depending on brief and seniority. Some briefs are flat-fee per deliverable. Paid through Oenra, no platform fees taken from your rate.
By participating, you license your logs to Oenra Labs. Any work we publish will always include a byline crediting you as the author.
Trained hands matter more than kit. Small-cellar experience counts when the work is good.
We match briefs to people based on the work you've shown us. You can pass on any cellar that doesn't feel right.

Connecting with the missing signal: palate

Oenra connects top sensory minds with wine teams training panels to understand palate. This is expert input, not crowd labor. It's the sensory layer powering the next generation of wine.

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Cellar & Barrel Masters

1.5M+

independent tasters

400+

Grape varieties represented

$250M+

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