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a person paid to taste wine professionally so your dinner doesn't taste like regret.
means short for sommelier, a trained wine steward who curates a restaurant's list and pairs bottles with food.
from from french sommelier, once a royal court official in charge of transporting supplies on packhorses, back to old provencal saumalier, a pack-animal driver; the job drifted from hauling baggage to hauling opinions about tannins.
master examunder 250 people have ever passed it
blind tastingcan name grape, region, and vintage blind
pass ratemaster sommelier exam fails over 90 percent
tip theorysome earn more from bottle commissions than salary
for instance
court of master sommeliers — founded 1977 in london, gatekeeps the toughest wine exam alive
somm 2012 documentary — followed four candidates cramming for the master exam
aldo sohm — le bernardin's wine director, james beard award 2015