Meaning of Sommelier | Babel Free
ˌsɒmˈmɛli.əDefinitions
The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.
Equivalents
Examples
“The sommelier recommended the perfect wine, opened the bottle with panache, and served it into glasses.”
“A Sommelier or wine steward organizes a restaurant's entire wine program⟳, from tasting to pairing of wines with foods the chef might prepare⟳ according to seasonal meat, seafood, and produce⟳ availability, to ordering and keeping inventory, staying on top of local, domestic, and foreign releases, and educating waitstaff about wines and their nuances. […] A Sommelier must make⟳ novice wine drinkers comfortable and explain⟳ wine complexities simply, while knowing wines well enough to satisfy⟳ the most demanding customer.”
“There's a new kid on the block⟳: the tea sommelier. […] In the Western world, the first acting tea sommelier on the scene was Helen Gustafson, although the title was never bestowed her. […] She stayed at the restaurant for twenty years, and although she did not have⟳ the formal title of tea sommelier—no one did at the time—many in the industry credit her with leading the charge that has resulted in fine-dining establishments improving their tea service.”
“The fMRI [functional magnetic resonance imaging] brain images of sommeliers show⟳ that their brains act very differently from ordinary brains when they taste⟳ wine. An Italian radiology research⟳ group (Castriota-Scanderbeg et al., 2005) showed activation of the cerebral network in the left insula and adjoining orbito-frontal cortex in sommeliers.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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