Curate is a wine app built around a visual tasting note builder: rather than writing paragraphs into a blank box, you build structured tasting notes by selecting from wine-specific options — appearance, aromas and flavors, palate structure, pairings, and context. Notes accumulate into a personal tasting library that grows as your palate evolves.
Why Build a Note?
No wine ever tastes exactly the same way twice. The vintage, the bottle, the glass, the plate, and the company all leave their mark, and what you sensed tonight is gone by morning unless it's recorded somewhere with enough structure to be found again. A Curate tasting note gives one tasting a durable form — specific enough to compare, structured enough to search, and yours to revisit.
One Account, Two Experiences
Curate — the free, everyday experience: tasting notes for wines you can see the label of, at three detail levels — Quick, Standard, and Advanced — from a two-minute impression to a complete assessment. See Choosing a Detail Level.
Curate for Sommeliers — the paid offering for CMS and WSET candidates: blind tasting practice in exam-aligned formats, paired with Study Reports that reveal patterns in your conclusions. See About Curate for Sommeliers.
Both live under one account, and notes from both sides join the same tasting library.
What a Tasting Note Can Hold
Every part of a note is optional — record what you observe, skip what you don't. A note can capture:
Appearance — color, brightness and clarity, legs, and finer observations at higher detail levels.
Aromas and flavors — selected from a library of more than 800 descriptors, browsed by theme or through the Aroma Wheel.
Structure — sliders and characteristics for acidity, alcohol, body, fruit, sweetness, tannin, and more.
Context and environment — when and where you tasted, with whom, the occasion, the stemware, the temperature.
Food pairings — ingredients and recipes the wine met at the table.
Scores and value — a 20- or 100-point score, whether you'd purchase it again or recommend it, and what it's worth to you.
Notes, tags, and photos — a personal note, a public review, your own tags, and pictures of the bottle and label.
Flaws and defects — when something in the glass is wrong, and how strongly.
The Shared Wine Library
Wines are defined once, in Curate — a shared library of producers, styles, regions, and vintages that every member's notes attach to. If the wine in front of you isn't in Curate yet, you can add it in a few fields and your note comes along. See Finding Wines and Adding a New Wine.
Vocabulary
The handful of names these docs use throughout:
Term | Meaning |
Tasting note builder | The note-creation experience — the summary cards, popovers, and Editor Panel where a note is assembled. |
Detail level | How deep a free note goes: Quick, Standard, or Advanced. Chosen when the note is created. |
Quick Selections | The fast path — tapping a summary row to set its most essential field from a small popover. |
Editor Panel | The full editor — every field of every section, opened from any edit button. |
Coverage indicator | The segmented ring or bar on each section showing how much of it you've recorded. |
Aroma Wheel | The interactive wheel for browsing and selecting aroma and flavor descriptors. |
Tasting library | Your collection of saved notes — searchable by anything you recorded. |
Wine page | A wine's own page in the shared library: its attributes, its notes, and its style profile. |
Where to Go Next
Build your first note end to end: Your First Tasting Note
Learn the builder's mechanics: How the Tasting Note Builder Works
Preparing for an exam: About Curate for Sommeliers