Palate type 8 of 10 · Across the list
The Natural Sceptic
Cloudy is for skies.
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 Natural Sceptic
Cloudy 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.
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 Acid HoundIf 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.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 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.
