Tasting Panellists

with palate.

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Join a network of panellists shaping how wine is scored.

Get paid for your palate, blind instincts, and scoring judgment.

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How it works

01

Apply

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

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Join the network

Selected panellists join a curated network of tasters with exceptional scoring consistency.

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Get matched

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

What you'll do

Score wines blind

Taste to briefs that set the rubric, the scale, and the scoring window.

Range across real flights

Varietal line-ups, benchmark sets, vintage depth, blends.

Deliver clean scores

Complete, clearly reasoned, on time, to spec. No published note required unless specified.

Hold the bar across a rubric

Colour, nose, palate, finish. Consistent every flight.

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

Repeatability, discrimination, recall. Scores that hold up on retest.

Range

Record shows variety across varieties and styles.

Brief discipline

Able to follow the rubric and score within clear parameters.

Reliable delivery

Complete scoresheets. Consistent communication. Strong attention to detail.

Real-world environments

Comfortable tasting across panel rooms, cellars, booths, 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 tasting record and complete a short blind scoring submission. Selected panellists 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. Consistency counts more than a certificate.
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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