Sensory Analysts

with palate.

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Join a network of analysts shaping how wine is measured.

Get paid for your rigour, panel instincts, and sensory judgment.

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How it works

01

Apply

Share your panel record and complete a short descriptive analysis submission.

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Join the network

Selected analysts join a curated network of tasters with exceptional methodological rigour.

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Get matched

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

What you'll do

Run descriptive analysis

Design to briefs that set attribute lexicon, replicates, and panel size.

Range across real designs

Triangle tests, ranking, QDA, time-intensity, thresholds.

Deliver clean data

Structured, clearly coded, on time, to spec. No modelling required unless specified.

Hold the bar across sessions

Calibration, blinding, replicates, booth conditions. 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 trained method

Lexicon, replicates, statistics. The software matters less than the design.

Range

Record shows variety across methods and matrices.

Brief discipline

Able to follow study direction and report within clear parameters.

Reliable delivery

Clean datasets. Consistent communication. Strong attention to detail.

Real-world environments

Comfortable running panels across booths, cellars, labs, and tasting rooms.

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 panel record and complete a short descriptive analysis submission. Selected analysts 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 method matters more than tooling. Spreadsheet work counts when the design is sound.
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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