Own Taste

Own Taste at the auction houses: what a lot costs with the premium, what to bid to stay under your limit, and a hand-off to Splits.

Own Taste works on wine auctions On a lot page, a small card shows what the lot costs all-in with the house's buyer's premium. Type the most you'd pay for one bottle, premium included, and it tells you the highest bid that keeps you under it. On a catalog page, every lot still open for bidding gets a line with its all-in cost at the current bid, and a bottle's share when there's more than one. "Set your limit" opens the card for that lot without leaving the catalog. Looking at wine with friends? "Propose in Splits" sends the lot, and your limit, to Splits in Own Taste, where your group says who wants how many bottles, one person bids, and the ledger works out who owes what. Pick a group and the lot is filled in for you. This is just a planning tool, no transactions happen. The toolbar button has the same calculator for nine houses, and the next week of auctions from the Own Taste calendar. Own Taste reads only the page you're looking at. It sends nothing to any auction house or anyone else.