What “Palate Match” is
Palate Match is a feature on Enolisa’s Global wine pages (canonical wine profiles in Enolisa’s global catalog) that estimates how well a wine matches your personal taste.
It compares:
- What Enolisa knows you like (from your recorded tastings), and
- The wine’s sensory descriptor set (derived from its grape profile and descriptors available in the global database)
Where you see it
Palate Match appears on Global wine pages, not on the local My wines detail pages.
Typical use cases:
- “Should I try this wine?”
- “Is this aligned with the way I usually describe wines I like?”
Two matches, not one
Enolisa separates matching into two modes:
- Aroma match: compares your top aromas to the wine’s aroma descriptors.
- Flavor match: compares your top flavors to the wine’s flavor descriptors.
In many UIs, Enolisa highlights the strongest side (aroma or flavor) to produce a simple overall signal.
What data Palate Match uses
Your taste profile (from tastings)
From your tastings, Enolisa keeps “top” descriptors (the ones you choose most often), segmented by wine type:
- Your top aromas for red wines vs white wines, etc.
- Each top list is capped (for example, up to ~10 descriptors) to stay stable and meaningful.
The wine descriptor set
The wine’s descriptor set is built from available descriptors in the global database (often tied to grapes).
Descriptors may include:
- a main label
- synonyms (so the system can match “black cherry” and “dark cherry”, etc., when those synonyms exist)
How the percentage should be interpreted
Palate Match is not a promise. It’s a directional score meant to help discovery:
- Higher percentages suggest that the wine’s descriptor set overlaps more strongly with your top descriptors.
- Lower percentages suggest fewer overlaps (but the wine might still be interesting if you want to explore outside your comfort zone).
If you have limited tastings, the system may be more conservative or simply unavailable for that wine type.
When Palate Match is unavailable
Palate Match requires user data:
- If you have no tasting history (or no tastings for that wine type), Enolisa can’t compute a meaningful match.
How to improve Palate Match
Palate Match becomes more useful when:
- You log tastings regularly (more samples → a more stable top list).
- You choose aromas/flavors consistently (avoid random descriptors).
- You keep using the same descriptor system over time (Enolisa supports custom descriptors, but consistency matters).