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Savorant
Ear training for the palate. Learn the words for what you already taste, and how much of it.
App StoreComing soonSomeone at the table calls it caramel and leather. You take another sip and find neither.
So you nod along, and quietly decide your palate isn’t good enough.
It is. People who taste for a living don’t smell more than you do. What they have is the words to name what they find.
I first noticed it at a festival, comparing notes with a stranger. In places we were tasting the same thing and calling it something different. My wife and I see it every time we teach our bourbon appreciation class. We pass around an essential oil of corn and ask what people smell. Corn, they say. Popcorn. Creamed corn. Tamales. Everyone smelled the same thing. Their lives chose the word.
The name is the part you can share. The harder part is how much. Your “a little” might be my “a lot,” and nothing in your life gives you a scale for that. Without one, two people can taste the same pour and never really compare it.
Most tasting tools stop at the name. Savorant starts there, introducing each flavor through something you already know. Then it trains the part nobody teaches: how strong it is, graded the same way every time. As your palate changes, you come back and recalibrate.
Your palate was never the problem. You just needed the words, and a way to say how much.
What I said no to, and why.
No wheel to memorize.
A flavor wheel asks you to learn someone else’s words first. Savorant starts with things already on your shelf, so every new word has something real to hold on to.
No red pen.
Your life chose your word, and it isn’t wrong. Savorant offers one better word per note, never a correction.
No one-time calibration.
Your palate keeps changing with every pour. The scale is something you come back to, not a test you pass once.
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Start from what you already know.
Most tasting advice tells you what you should find. I’d rather start with what you already know, and give you a way to say it that the person next to you understands. It’s the same habit behind everything I make.
You already taste it. You just don’t have the word yet.