Palate type 2 of 10 · Whites
The Acid Hound
If it doesn’t make your teeth squeak, why bother.
One of ten palate types in Pourly. The app reads a restaurant wine list from a photo and names the one bottle to order for your taste and tonight's budget. Up to nine questions find your type, in about a minute, and no answer leaves the page.
The beta is invite-only and goes out in small batches. For iPhone, iOS 17 or later.
Palate type
The Acid Hound
If it doesn’t make your teeth squeak, why bother.
Sancerre, Riesling, anything grown on a rock. You describe wines as “nervy” and mean it as the highest compliment.
WhitesLightMineralRichFruit
Pourly.
The other nine
One of ten palate types. Yours is a fixed opinion.
- WhitesYouThe Burgundy BilingualFluent in oak and flint.Meursault when the plate is rich, Chablis when it isn’t, and you call this consistency. The sommelier agrees, quietly.Read more
- WhitesYouThe Oak EnthusiastButter is a food group. Barrels are furniture.Rich, round, toasted. You have never once sent back a Chardonnay for being too much, and you are not about to start.Read more
- RedsYouThe Tannin TraditionalistBarolo, Bordeaux, and patience. Mostly patience.Reds with structure and a decade on them, and opinions about decanting that people have learned not to trigger.Read more
- RedsYouThe Pinot PuristLikes a red you can read the menu through.Burgundy, Spätburgunder, Etna, a good cru Beaujolais. Pale, perfumed, a little earthy, and you will defend a chilled red to anyone who asks and several who didn’t.Read more
- RedsYouThe Ripe RomanticLikes a red that had a good summer.Malbec, Zinfandel, Primitivo, a Barossa Shiraz. Dark fruit, soft edges, nothing that needs a decade or a lecture. Someone once called it obvious. They did not get a second glass.Read more
- BubblesYouThe Bubbles DiplomatEvery occasion is an occasion.Champagne to start, Sekt to continue, Crémant when nobody is looking. You have never had a bad evening that began with a cork.Read more
- Across the listYouThe Natural ScepticCloudy is for skies.Nothing natural, nothing orange, nothing that smells of a farmyard. You are not a snob. You have standards, and a list of them.Read more
- Across the listYouThe Value HunterKnows the second-cheapest bottle is a trap.You read a list bottom-up, price first, and find the bottle the sommelier actually drinks. Every list has one.Read more
- Across the listYouThe Curious PalateNever orders the same thing twice, on principle.Grapes you can’t pronounce, regions you can’t place. A wine list is a map with the good bits unmarked, and you like it that way.Read more
- Not sure which one you are?Take the palate test Up to nine questions, about a minute. The app asks the same ones.
