Pour Print & Palate Print.
How The Perfect Pour learns what you like.
Two ideas sit at the center of the app. They sound technical at first. They aren’t. Once you’ve poured a few times, you’ll see them work.
The Pour Print.
Every bottle gets a Pour Print: a flavor signature. Think of it as the bottle’s sensory fingerprint — what it smells like, what it tastes like, what the finish does, and how those notes connect.
The Pour Print is built from three sources:
- What the distillery says. Mash bill, age, proof, barrel notes, any release-specific details. The objective record.
- What reviewers say. The published tasting notes that already exist in the bourbon world. Aggregated, not parroted.
- What your own tasting reveals. The notes you write when you pour it. Nose. Palate. Finish.
Those three layers stack. The Pour Print sharpens with every pour logged against the bottle — yours and other testers’. A bottle that’s been logged once has a partial Pour Print. A bottle that’s been logged a hundred times has a clear one.
The Palate Print.
Every pour you log sharpens your Palate Print: your own flavor signature. The pattern across every bottle you reach for, every note you write, every finish that lingered, every disappointment.
Ten pours in, the shape starts to show. Fifty pours in, it reads like a fingerprint — and so does what you should reach for next.
Your Palate Print is yours. It doesn’t rank you against other drinkers. It doesn’t score you. It tells Franklin what you actually like — in the words you used — so he can point at the next bottle that fits.
How they work together.
The Pour Print describes what’s in the glass. The Palate Print describes what you reach for. Where the two overlap is where Franklin’s recommendations come from.
If your Palate Print leans toward high-rye spice and a long finish, Franklin looks at the Pour Prints of bottles you haven’t poured yet, finds the ones that match the shape, and points there. Not because they’re rare. Not because they’re expensive. Because they fit your print.
The right bottle — not the rarest one.
Your data is yours.
Your Palate Print never gets shared with marketers, distilleries, or anyone else. The shared distillery database is opt-in only — your tasting notes can help the next collector’s research, but never under your name, and never tied to your account.
Read the full privacy policy.
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