Paper hasn’t kept up.
The night starts well: good pours, good company, a stack of scorecards on the table to make it feel like a real tasting, not just drinks. Then a glass sweats onto a sheet, one goes missing between rounds, and by the third pour, half the guests have stopped keeping track. What was supposed to feel like an occasion starts to feel like paperwork.
Hosts who want a better experience end up cobbling together a fix themselves: a spreadsheet, a shared doc, sometimes a whole scoring sheet designed from scratch, all chasing something well organized enough to actually be worth repeating. It works, more or less. It’s just effort spent on infrastructure instead of the evening.
And when the tasting itself goes well, when the room actually lands on a favorite, there’s nothing left to show for it once the glasses are empty.
Set up in minutes. Remembered long after.
No printing, no shuffling papers between pours. Build your flight and you’re ready. Guests join with just a name, no account, nothing to download, and move through a guided four-pillar tasting: Appearance, Nose, Palate, Finish, rating what they actually noticed as they go. This isn’t a test, and nobody’s grading the notes.
That ease is the real payoff. While everyone else is passing around scorecards, your tasting just runs, and that’s the kind of small, obvious polish that makes you the host people remember, and want to taste with again.
The moment that sticks, the one guests actually bring up afterward, is the reveal: the whole room finding out together which pour came out on top.
What you’re actually replacing
| Paper scorecards | StillNote | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Print and shuffle sheets before every tasting | Set up a flight in minutes, ready to reuse next time |
| Group stays in sync | No: everyone's on their own sheet, reconciled after if at all | Yes: ratings come in live from everyone’s phone, no reconciling after the fact |
| Guided tasting structure | Whatever the printed template happened to include | Purpose-built four-pillar flow: Appearance, Nose, Palate, Finish |
| Blind tasting | Manual: you number the glasses and bottles yourself | Built-in blind mode with a live reveal |
| Survives the night | Gets wet, lost, or abandoned by the second pour | Lives on everyone’s phone. Nothing to lose. |
| What's left afterward | A stack of damp paper, if it made it that far. Nothing else. | A live reveal the room actually reacts to, then a summary email — a night guests remember, not just one that happened |
Create one elevated evening, or make hosting a habit.
You get the same experience, pricing based on how often you host.
| Free | Single Session: $24.99 | Annual Unlimited: $89.99/year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions | Unlimited | 1 tasting | Unlimited, 12 months |
| Spirits per session | Up to 2 | Up to 10 | Up to 10 |
| Live Monitor (see who's rated) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| See your own guests' contact info* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Photo upload on spirit cards | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Blind tasting mode | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Session analytics | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Post-session email summary | — | ✓ | ✓ |
*Requires the guest’s opt-in. Shown only if they chose to share it.
Questions hosts actually ask
Do my guests need to download an app?
No. Guests join with just a name through a link or QR code. No account, no download.
Do I need to be an expert taster to host?
No. Neither you nor your guests need to be. This isn't a test, and there's no wrong answer; the goal is noticing what you notice, not describing it like a pro would.
How many whiskies should I pour for a tasting?
Three to five is the sweet spot for your guests. Much more than that and palates start to blur together before the night’s over.
How long do I have to use my Single Session pass?
30 days from purchase. It's a single session pass, not a standing subscription. Once you use it or the window closes, that's the credit spent.
Is there a limit on how many guests can join?
No guest limit. Only the number of spirits in a tasting is capped: two on Free, ten on Single Session or Annual. How many people show up is entirely your call. Guided, intimate tastings work best around 5-10 guests, while bigger, more social gatherings scale further with a self-guided, station-based setup: see how to host a whiskey tasting.