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• n  a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant

• As the sommelier puts it: "The days of the cork are numbered.
• NEC's mechanical sommelier is the latest robot with an "optical tongue" to emerge from the company's research lab in Tokyo; the first, PaPeRo, unveiled last year, identifies .
• Water sommelier Michael Mascha, photographed in Harlingen, Texas.

• wine waiter
• wine steward

News & Articles

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• From the Strongsville Sommelier
  Sommelier George Zaboura recommends Caposaldo Sweet Moscato from Italy.
  June 8, 2013 - Sun Star Courier
• School of Wine presents sommelier training at Total Wine this weekend
  The School of Wine is the new school in wine education. What makes it different is that it focuses on wines from California and the U.S. In the new world of American food and wine, this is the go-to education and certification you need. Sommelier training level one will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the classroom at Total Wine and More, 6671 S. Virginia St.
  June 8, 2013 - Reno Gazette-Journal
• UC Davis-trained wine educator featured at Winestock SF
  Pablo Antinao-Alvarez came to California for the wine, and because its landscape reminded him of his home of Chile. Two years later, in 2006, his formal wine education began. He participated in a winemaking program offered by UC Davis Extension and continued his wine professional and sommelier certification in Napa Valley, California, and Barcelona, Spain. At the very first Winestock San ...
  June 5, 2013 - The California Aggie

Quotes

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• Amy Tan in Hartford Courant
  It's the only tea that improves with age, Tan says, and is considered a fine gift for a host."People in that store know tea like a sommelier knows fine wines."
• Bryn Terfel in Times Online
  Terfel says: "I am mesmerised by the skill of a sommelier at work, so the opportunity was something I could not pass up."
• Steve Yzerman in Globe and Mail
  I've offered my services as a sommelier,Yzerman joked.