Sharing Party & Mix Palate: Taste Wine Together

Wine Is Better With Witnesses

Most wine apps treat tasting as a solo activity. But the bottles you remember are almost never the ones you drank alone: they are the ones argued over at a dinner table, compared at a tasting bar, passed around at a party.

Sommo’s social surfaces are built for exactly that, and built the Sommo way: opt-in, private by default, and everyone keeps their own notes.

Sharing Party: One Flight, Every Verdict

The host scans the flight card, or types the wines in, and shares a code or a link. Guests join in seconds, free, and rate every pour on their own phone: verdicts, notes, flavour tags.

Nobody sees anyone else’s ratings until the host reveals. Then the table lights up: who loved the Riesling, who put the cult Cabernet last, which wine quietly won the night. Every guest batches their own ratings into their own journal, so the evening becomes data on every phone that attended.

Past parties live in your Wine Tastings list, so you can get back into one without hunting for the code.

Mix Palate: Whose Taste Is This Anyway

Mix Palate compares palates properly. A duo, or a group of up to eight people behind one invite code, each represented by their six-axis Taste DNA fingerprint.

The comparison shows the axis-by-axis breakdown, who sits closest and who is furthest apart, and the wines everyone agrees on. With Premium, the group can ask for joint picks: pair a meal for the whole table, or point the group scanner at a menu and get a pick that suits everyone at once.

Consent is structural, not fine print. Joining via the invite code is the opt-in, the host can withdraw the comparison, and any guest can leave at any time.

Racks and Cards That Travel

Two more ways your wine life moves between people:

• Rack sharing. Share a named rack from your cellar as a live view, with viewer or editor access for the people you trust.
• Share cards. Any tasting note or Taste DNA reading exports as a designed card at a public link that unfurls properly in chat. Friends without the app see the card; friends with it can import what you shared.

Everything here is opt-in, and nothing is public unless you mint a link yourself.

A Community Without the Performance Feed

Sommo’s community is smaller than the giant rating networks and deliberately works differently. It grows around invitations, shared bottles and real tasting tables, not a feed that needs every private score to become content. The app is independently built, and the people using it have a direct route into what comes next through feature requests and the Premium roadmap. That story is set out on About Sommo.

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