Tasting Hosts

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Join a network of tasting hosts shaping how wine is judged.

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

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How it works

01

Apply

Share your hosting record and complete a short panel setup submission.

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Join the network

Selected hosts join a curated network of tasters with exceptional organisational judgment.

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Get matched

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

What you'll do

Run panels and flights

Host to briefs that set flight order, pour size, and session length.

Range across real formats

Blind flights, benchmark line-ups, single-blind, tastings.

Deliver clean sessions

Briefed, clearly logged, on time, to spec. No scoring required unless specified.

Hold the bar across sessions

Temperature, glassware, lighting, 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 steady hand

Timing, order, conditions. The room matters less than the host running it.

Range

Record shows variety across formats and panel sizes.

Brief discipline

Able to follow panel direction and host within clear parameters.

Reliable delivery

Organized logs. Consistent communication. Strong attention to detail.

Real-world environments

Comfortable hosting across cellars, panel rooms, tasting 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 hosting record and complete a short panel setup submission. Selected hosts 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 steady hand matters more than kit. A quiet room and clean glassware go a long way.
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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independent tasters

400+

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$250M+

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