Other forms: sommeliers
A sommelier is the waiter who advises on and serves wine. Ask the sommelier, the head sommelier, a sommelier's recommendation.
The job is matching wine to what you ordered and to what you want to spend, and a good sommelier will find something interesting at the bottom of the list. The qualification takes years and a notoriously hard blind tasting.
1nounsommelierThe waiter who advises on and serves wine.
“The sommelier suggested a light red wine to go with the duck.”
sommelier is a worker.
French sommelier first meant an official in charge of the pack animals carrying provisions, including wine.
Latin
sagma — packsaddle
Vulgar Latin
*sauma
French
sommelier — originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden carrying wine
English, today
sommelier
Borrowed from French sommelier (“originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden carrying wine”), from somme + -ier. somme is from Vulgar Latin sauma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA