A sommelier is also called a senior sommelier, and internationally called a sommelier. Sommelier comes from French and refers to the waiter in charge of drinks in hotels and restaurants. It refers to professionals who have professional knowledge and skills in wine, provide wine service and consultation for guests, and are responsible for menu design, wine identification, tasting, purchasing, sales and wine cellar management.

A sommelier should have basic aesthetic quality, keen fashion perception, noble taste and appreciation ability. It takes at least four or five years for a qualified sommelier to grow up, and it takes almost five years to become a master sommelier.

The origin of sommeliers

? A sommelier? According to legend, this profession originated from the French aristocratic society in the Middle Ages, when there was a profession called "bete de somme? One of the duties of the waiter is to check whether the wine is poisonous with a silver tasting tray. Later, "bete de somme" gradually flowed to folk restaurants and evolved into "Sommellerie? English "sommelier"? This is how it evolved.

Michelin Guide, known as the French food bible, defines the duties of sommeliers as follows: providing wine matching suggestions for the dishes ordered by banquet hosts, controlling the suitable drinking temperature of champagne and white wine with ice buckets, operating decanters to change bottles of sober red wine, opening bottles for guests and checking the quality of wine, pouring wine for guests and answering various questions raised by guests about wine.

In recent years, the development of China wine market is extremely hot, and the heavyweights in catering industry and hotel industry, represented by high-end services? The sommelier has also become a sought-after profession in the market. As a high-end wine service club in China, Qishuo Winery has the most professional sommelier team to provide perfect wine tasting service and professional wine training for wine lovers.