Quotes About Sommelier

Assam tea goes very well after white wine. —MICHAEL OBNOWLENNY, Canada's first tea sommelier

I'm the sommelier of slaying

When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.

I don't know anything about the wine world at all.

I like white wine, Riesling.

This is the Penfolds Bin Eight Cab. It has notes of imitation crabmeat

The sommelier had given them a lesson about the stomach-settling qualities of grappa, a humble liqueur made from something called pomace. A fancy word for what's left after the juice is squeezed out of the grapes, Natalie explained.

should explain that a "sommelier" is a wine steward, the dignified person who comes up to you at expensive restaurants, hands you the wine list, and says "Excellent choice, sir," when you point to French writing that, translated, says "Sales Tax Included.