Written for candidates preparing for CMS or WSET tasting examinations.
The Sommelier dashboard — Sommelier in the app's header — is where Curate for Sommeliers reads your practice back to you: Study Reports on your accuracy and pacing, your coverage of exam-relevant styles, and the history of every session. It's also where every blind tasting begins.
The Certification Selector
The dashboard shows one certification level at a time — WSET Level 2, 3, or 4, CMS Certified, or CMS Advanced/Master — chosen from the selector at the top. Everything below it is scoped to that level: statistics, the practice table, and the session history. Your last selection is remembered between visits, and Start Blind Tasting begins a session in the selected format. See Setting Up a Blind Tasting.
Key Statistics
The headline numbers for the selected level:
Wine-type distribution — your sessions split across the five wine types — red, white, rosé, sparkling, and sweet & fortified — as a chart. Lopsided practice shows up here first.
Conclusion accuracy — how many sessions concluded with the correct variety, the correct region, and the correct vintage, counted separately — plus how many landed all three.
Completion and pacing — completed notes, your fastest and slowest sessions, and what share of your sessions ran timed.
Time Management
For timed sessions, the dashboard averages how long you spend in each section of the deductive work — sight, nose, palate, conclusions — and presents the split as proportion bars. The exam's clock is unforgiving about exactly this; knowing that your nose work eats a third of your time is the kind of self-knowledge the Variable Timer is there to train against. Until you've run timed deductive tastings, this card waits quietly.
Grape Varieties & Growing Regions
The Grape Varieties & Growing Regions table is your practice coverage against the exam-relevant wine styles for the selected level — one row per style, with:
Grape / Style and Region — the style's identity, its region with full hierarchy on hover.
Qualifiers — the production and style constraints that frame the row: oak regime, residual sugar, technique, quality tier.
Exposure — your history with the profile: tastings, distinct wines, distinct vintages.
Outcomes — your success rates concluding variety, region, and vintage against it.
Read it as a gap map: rows with no exposure are styles you haven't met blind; rows with exposure and poor outcomes are styles you've met and misread. Both are study plans in miniature. The catalog behind the table — and how to read its scope per exam — is covered in Exam-Relevant Wine Styles.
Tasting Sessions
The session history lists every blind tasting at the selected level: when it ran, its parameters (timer and duration, recorded or not), the wine — once revealed and linked — and the outcome at a glance: variety, region, and vintage, each marked correct, partial, or incorrect, with a completion figure for how much of the format you filled before the timer or the save. Where a format made a conclusion optional and you skipped it, that call shows as ungraded rather than counting against you.
The partial grades are deliberately exam-shaped: a region call earns partial credit for landing the right country but not the region, and a vintage call for landing within a year or two. Hover the icons for the detail.
Two actions matter here: linking the wine — after the reveal, Specify Linked Wine attaches what the wine actually was, which is what powers every accuracy statistic above — and View Tasting Note, which reopens the full session read-only: every card as you filled it, and the Dictation & Transcript panel when the session was recorded. An unlinked session shows an unknown wine and can't grade your conclusions; linking promptly is the habit that keeps Study Reports honest. Linked the wrong bottle? Change Linked Wine swaps the definition and re-grades the conclusions against it.
Without a Subscription
Signed-in members without an active plan see the dashboard's inactive state with a pointer to plans; formats remain explorable as demos meanwhile. Former subscribers keep something more: the dashboard's history — statistics, coverage, and sessions — stays readable even after a plan lapses, ready for a resubscription to build on.
Questions from the dashboard reach our team through its Get Assistance button; responses are targeted within 48 hours.
Curate is an independent software provider, not affiliated with the Court of Master Sommeliers or the Wine & Spirit Education Trust, nor endorsed by either.