Sommeliers

with palate.

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Join a network of sommeliers shaping how wine is served.

Get paid for your palate, floor instincts, and service judgment.

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How it works

01

Apply

Share your service record and complete a short blind tasting submission.

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Join the network

Selected sommeliers join a curated network of tasters with exceptional palate 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

Taste blind to a rubric

Score to briefs that set flight order, service temperature, and glassware.

Range across real lists

Growers, back vintages, by-the-glass, large format.

Deliver clean notes

Structured, clearly worded, on time, to spec. No pairing rationale required unless specified.

Hold the bar across flights

Calling variety, region, vintage, and quality. 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 palate

Structure, balance, typicity. The cellar matters less than the palate reading it.

Range

Record shows variety across regions and styles.

Brief discipline

Able to follow tasting direction and score within clear parameters.

Reliable delivery

Organized notes. Consistent communication. Strong attention to detail.

Real-world environments

Comfortable tasting across dining rooms, cellars, panel rooms, and trade fairs.

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 service record and complete a short blind tasting submission. Selected sommeliers 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. Floor experience counts when the calls are right.
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

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independent tasters

400+

Grape varieties represented

$250M+

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