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Your First Tasting Note

From an open bottle to a saved, searchable note — the whole loop in six short steps

This is the walk from an open bottle to a saved note in your tasting library — about ten minutes the first time, faster every time after. It uses a Standard note; everything here applies equally to Quick and Advanced.

1. Sign In

Head to app.curate.wine and sign in, or create a free account. If you'd rather look before you leap, guests can open the tasting note builder and try every control — saving is what requires the account. See Saving, Visibility & Guest Preview.

2. Start the Note

Press Add Tasting Note and choose New Standard Note. The menu's three options are the detail levels — Quick, Standard, and Advanced — which set how many fields and aroma choices the builder offers. Standard is the comfortable middle for a bottle you're paying attention to; Choosing a Detail Level covers when to reach for the others.

3. Identify the Wine

In the builder's Wine Details, search for the wine — by winery, style, or region. Wines live in a shared library in Curate, so there's a fair chance someone has met your bottle before; select it and move on. If it isn't there yet, the same few fields define it: brand, style, region, vintage. That's enough — the deeper attributes can wait, or never come. See Adding a New Wine.

If you'd started from the wine's own page instead — via search or the Wines view — the note would arrive with this step already done.

4. Record What You Notice

Now the note itself. Nothing here is required, and order doesn't matter; a good first pass:

  • Color — on the Color & Appearance card, tap the color swatch and pick what's in the glass.

  • Aromas and flavors — open Bouquet & Palate and add a few descriptors: browse by theme, search by name, or open the Aroma Wheel and wander. See Aromas & Flavors.

  • Structure — drag a few of the Profile Levels sliders: acidity, body, tannin, sweetness — wherever you have an opinion.

  • A score, if you're scoring — the Rating tab takes a 20- or 100-point score, or just the two questions that outlast any number: would you purchase it again, and would you recommend it.

You'll notice the coverage indicators on each card fill as you go. They're a map of what you've recorded, not a grade — a note with three aromas and a score is a complete note if that's what the evening held.

5. Add the Context

On the Tasting Details card, give the note its when and where: the date, the place, who was at the table, the occasion. Months from now this is often the half you're gladdest to have — the wine and the evening, kept together. See Tasting Context & Environment.

6. Save

Press Save. The note lands in your tasting library, attached to its wine — searchable by the aromas you chose, the region, the restaurant, your tags, or any word in your notes. Find it any time under your notes, and see Your Tasting Library for what search, filters, and sorting can do once the notes accumulate.

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