General Tasters

with palate.

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Join a network of tasters shaping how wine is judged.

Get paid for your palate, honest instincts, and plain judgment.

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How it works

01

Apply

Complete a short calibration flight. No formal credential required.

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Join the network

Selected tasters join a curated network of palates with exceptional descriptive judgment.

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Get matched

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

What you'll do

Score blind flights

Taste to briefs that set flight order, rubric, and scoring window.

Range across real styles

Reds, whites, sparkling, fortified, orange.

Deliver clean scores

Complete, clearly worded, on time, to spec. No formal note required unless specified.

Hold the bar across flights

Order, temperature, glassware, palate resets. Consistent every panel.

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 calibrated palate

Consistency, honesty, recall. The credential matters less than the palate.

Range

Record shows variety across styles and price points.

Brief discipline

Able to follow tasting direction and score within clear parameters.

Reliable delivery

Complete scores. Consistent communication. Strong attention to detail.

Real-world environments

Comfortable tasting across cellars, panel rooms, trade shows, and at home.

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.
Complete a short calibration flight. No formal credential required. Selected tasters 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 calibrated palate matters more than credentials. Amateur tasting counts when the palate 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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400+

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$250M+

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