Fine Wine Merchants

with palate.

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Join a network of merchants shaping how wine is valued.

Get paid for your palate, market instincts, and pricing judgment.

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How it works

01

Apply

Share your trading record and complete a short fine wine submission.

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Join the network

Selected merchants join a curated network of tasters with exceptional market judgment.

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Get matched

When a cellar fits your book, we'll reach out with timeline, scope, and pay. Remote and async.

What you'll do

Assess bottles for the market

Taste to briefs that set producer, vintage, condition, and price band.

Range across real allocations

Growers, négociants, back vintages, ex-cellar parcels.

Deliver clean provenance

Documented, clearly sourced, on time, to spec. No valuation required unless specified.

Hold the bar across parcels

Condition, fill, storage, authenticity. Consistent every offer.

What you get

Paid briefs up to $100/hr. Frontier cellar access. Authorship stays with you. Remote, async, on your schedule.

The right fit

A trained palate

Provenance, condition, price. The list matters less than the palate behind it.

Range

Record shows variety across regions and vintages.

Brief discipline

Able to follow sourcing direction and report within clear parameters.

Reliable delivery

Organized offers. Consistent communication. Strong attention to detail.

Real-world environments

Comfortable working across cellars, auctions, tastings, and collector visits.

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 trading record and complete a short fine wine submission. Selected merchants join the network and are matched with paid briefs as projects arise.
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 work to Oenra Labs. Any work we publish will always include a byline crediting you as the author.
A trained palate matters more than credentials. Independent merchants count when the book 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.

Sommeliers

Tasters

Importers

Winemakers

Blind Tasting Judges

Viticulturists & Growers

Cellar & Barrel Masters

1.5M+

independent tasters

400+

Grape varieties represented

$250M+

verified taster earnings