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Taste Notes

OENARI lets you record structured tasting notes for any wine — whether it's a bottle from your cellar or something you're tasting at a restaurant, event, or friend's house. Every note becomes part of your personal tasting archive, building a history of what you've tried and how your palate evolves over time.

Creating a Tasting Note

There are two ways to create a tasting note, both via the FAB button:

  • Taste Wine — For any wine, whether you own it or not. Search or scan to identify the wine, then record your note.
  • Consume Wine — When you open a bottle from your collection. As part of the consumption flow, you can add a tasting note before the bottle is moved to your consumed history.

What You Can Record

OP Score

Every tasting note starts with your personal OP Score — a rating from 0 to 100 using a slider. As you adjust the score, OENARI shows you the quality category:

Score Category
95–100 Extraordinary
90–94 Outstanding
85–89 Very Good
80–84 Good
70–79 Mediocre
Below 70 Not Recommended

Your OP Score contributes to the wine's community rating — the aggregate score visible on wine cards and detail views throughout the app.

Tasting Notes (Free Text)

A free-text field for your personal impressions. Write as much or as little as you want — from a quick "loved it, great with lamb" to a detailed paragraph.

Aromas

Select from 15 aroma categories to describe what you smell and taste: Citrus, Stone Fruit, Tropical Fruit, Red Fruit, Black Fruit, Dried Fruit, Floral, Herbal, Spice, Oak, Vanilla, Toast, Earth, Mineral, and Other.

Date & Location

Record when and where you tasted the wine. The date defaults to today but can be changed. Supporters and above can tag the location — search for a venue, restaurant or city, or use your current location.

Occasion

Tag the context: Restaurant, Wine tasting, Friends, At home, At dinner party, or Special occasion.

Vintage

Confirm or adjust the vintage year. You can also mark a wine as NV (non-vintage) for Champagne and other multi-vintage blends.

Visibility

Control who sees your note. Visibility is per note and can be changed later.

  • Private — Only you. Your OP score still contributes anonymously to the community average.
  • Followers — People who follow you. On a private account that means people you approved; on a public account, anyone who pressed follow.
  • Public — Visible in the Community feed and on your public profile.

Followers and Public require an activated profile. Without one, every note is private.

WSET Evaluation

Supporters and above can expand the optional WSET Details section for a professional-level structured evaluation aligned with the WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust) Systematic Approach to Tasting.

The evaluation adapts to the wine color — for example, tannin fields appear only for red wines, and appearance color options change based on whether you're tasting a red, white, rosé, sparkling, orange, or amber wine.

Appearance

  • Clarity — Clear or Hazy
  • Intensity — Pale, Medium, or Deep
  • Color — Options vary by wine type. For white wines: Lemon-Green, Lemon, Gold, Amber, Brown. For reds: Purple, Ruby, Garnet, Tawny, Brown. For rosé: Pink, Salmon, Orange, Onion Skin. For sparkling: Lemon-Green, Lemon, Gold, Pink. For orange wines: Gold, Amber, Brown, Orange. For amber wines: Gold, Amber, Brown. Colors are shown as visual buttons in the actual wine color.

Nose

  • Condition — Clean or Unclean
  • Intensity — Light through Pronounced (5 levels)
  • Aroma characteristics — Free text for specific observations

Palate

  • Sweetness — Dry through Luscious (6 levels)
  • Acidity — Low through High (5 levels)
  • Tannin — Low through High (5 levels, red wines only)
  • Alcohol — Low, Medium, or High
  • Body — Light through Full (5 levels)
  • Flavour intensity — Light through Pronounced (5 levels)
  • Finish — Short through Long (5 levels)
  • Other observations — Free text for texture, mouthfeel, pétillance, and other details

Conclusion

  • Quality level — Not Recommended through Extraordinary (6 levels)
  • Readiness — Too Young, Can Drink Now (Has Potential), Drink Now (Not For Ageing), or Too Old

Saving Your Note

You have three options when you're done:

  • Publish — Save and make the note visible based on your visibility setting.
  • Save as Draft — Save without publishing. You can come back and finish it later. Draft notes are marked with a "DRAFT" label in your Tasted list.
  • Cancel — Discard the note.

You can edit any published or draft note later from the Tasted list.

After publishing, OENARI offers to share your note as a card with friends. You can skip it.

Reading Notes in Another Language

When you open someone else's tasting note that is written in another language, tap Translate under the note. The translation is marked with the language it was translated from — for example Translated from Swedish — and Show original brings back the original text.

  • Once anyone has translated a note into your language, it opens already translated, including the preview in the Community feed. New translations need a tap.
  • Translation is available on every tier and doesn't use your monthly AI matches. There is a daily limit on new translations; notes that are already translated don't count.
  • If a note is already in your language, OENARI tells you so.
  • When the author edits the note, the old translations are removed.

Tips

  • You don't need to fill in everything. A quick OP Score and a sentence is a perfectly good tasting note. The WSET section is there when you want depth, not as a requirement.
  • Use Draft for restaurant tastings. Jot down your score and a few aromas at the table, then flesh out the note at home later.
  • Occasion tags help you remember context. Six months from now, knowing you tried that wine "at a dinner party" adds meaning to the score.
  • WSET evaluation builds your palate. Even if you're not studying for a WSET exam, the structured approach trains you to notice details you'd otherwise miss.