The specific work of sommelier

[ Edit this paragraph] The word "Sommelier" (the international name is sommelier) refers to the waiter who is in charge of drinks in hotels and restaurants. This is also the understanding of it by most people. Today, its connotation has been extended. A good sommelier should not only have the basic knowledge and skills of professional drinks, but also know how to design wine side dishes, have the ability to appreciate wine, have a deep foundation of wine tasting, be familiar with the requirements of wine procurement and be good at managing wine cellars. A sommelier must have basic aesthetic accomplishment, sensitive fashion perception and noble taste in order to have good taste and really understand wine.

there is a kind of people, knowing how to enjoy is their professional accomplishment, and high taste is their basic requirement. Among them, there are only about 1 elites in the world. Wine, delicacies, cheese, cigars and travel outline their colorful professional lives. They are called senior Sommeliers, and the international name is sommelier. Sommelier originated from French, which refers to the waiter in charge of drinks in hotels and restaurants. Today, its connotation has been expanded, referring to the professionals who have professional knowledge and skills in drinks, provide wine service and consultation for guests, and are responsible for menu design, wine identification, tasting, purchasing, sales and wine cellar management. A sommelier must have basic aesthetic accomplishment, sensitive fashion perception and noble taste in order to have good taste and really understand wine. A qualified sommelier needs at least four or five years to grow up, and it takes almost five years to become a master sommelier. [Edit this paragraph] ISG, which was established 26 years ago, is the only sommelier education institution recognized and approved by BOE. It has branches in more than 6 cities around the world and is internationally recognized as the cradle of sommelier training.

ISG sommelier's primary certification

This 24-hour course is designed for beginners, and students can freely use the basic terms of wine, know the wine label, know the classification system of wine producing areas, basic sommelier skills, and the theory of dishes and wine collocation. You can take part in a higher level of study by passing the exam. The latest Chinese ISG course was the first intermediate Chinese course for international sommeliers held at the Beijing headquarters of Yixiang, a wine training and education institution, in early January this year. The next intermediate course will be held at the end of this year, which is the most comfortable and convenient way for China wine lovers to learn.

ISG sommelier master certification

To get this master degree, you need to complete five elective courses, one compulsory course and 24-hour special practice courses. This teaching project takes 7 years to complete, and it is the most complete and comprehensive degree that can be awarded in the wine industry at present. And seven years is also a process that must be honed to become a top sommelier. At present, there are only about 13 master sommeliers in the world. They are not only the elite of the elite, but also can let guests enjoy an unprecedented wonderful experience like magicians. However, the master sommelier generally does not directly contact the guests, but is responsible for the planning and overall planning of the banquet, and is also responsible for staff training, and is also nicknamed "wine director". [Edit this paragraph] Procedures for serving wine 1. When entertaining guests, the following rules should be paid attention to:

(1) Wine with lighter wine quality should be served for guests before wine with heavier wine quality.

(2) dry wine is served first, and sweet wine is served later.

(3) The wine with shorter age is earlier than the wine with longer age.

(4) If you don't want to change the variety of wine, you should change the vintage of the wine; The wine of the same variety shall be toasted in different years.

The above four rules are the general rules for toasting wine at a banquet.

2. Keep the clarity of bottled wine

Hotel wine must be clear and transparent, without turbidity and precipitation. However, for some wines, especially red wines, after a long period of storage in the bottle, it is inevitable to avoid producing some sediments in the bottle. In this case, the sediments must be removed first, and then served to the table according to the above procedures. Take out the wine bottle from the wine cellar, enter the restaurant and open the cork, etc., so as to avoid any vibration of the wine bottle. You should also be very careful when pouring out wine. Generally speaking, it is not difficult to use this kind of tipping basket in the banquet hall.

Steal from the sommelier

Open the bottle

The sommelier first shows the wine to the guests, and tells the origin and year of the wine, and the wine label must be displayed to the guests. Then open the bottle with a "waiter's friend"-an auger with a wooden handle or a lever opener. When you slowly pull out the cork, you should put down your movements to avoid making a loud noise. Then wipe the bottle mouth with a napkin and smell it. If you find any peculiar smell, you should carefully taste it and decide whether to replace it.

changing bottles after drinking

When an old bottle of wine is getting old and there is sediment on one side of the bottle or the bottle neck, the sommelier will suggest that you must change the bottle. Before changing bottles, the wine should be placed upright for a certain period of time, waiting for precipitation; After opening the bottle, pour the wine slowly into another bottle, leaving the sediment at the bottom of the original bottle. This process can soften the tannins for many years, make them round and less bitter, and add a smooth and moist taste.

Breathing/sobering

For young wine, especially immature red wine, it is usually necessary to open the bottle first to make the wine slightly oxidized and the taste of the wine will become slightly supple. But the time of "breathing" depends on different wines. Champagne or sweet white wine can be opened one hour in advance, and young new red wine needs half an hour to one hour, not more than three hours at most. As for aged wine, it is best to open a bottle when using it. [Edit this paragraph] Vocational education With the increasing consumption of wine in China, the strong entry of imported wine and the infiltration of wine culture, more and more consumers are not only satisfied with drinking wine, but also want to know more about wine and wine tasting. Then, in the world, what are the more authoritative institutions and groups of wine education?

There are many wine-related courses in the world, and the best wine-making courses are in French wine colleges, large and small, which usually take 2 to 4 years. The most famous wine tasting course is in Britain, which is good at tasting wine and spirits; The top sommelier course is in the United States, which has the largest number of sommelier alliances, associations, organizations and societies.

For consumers, learning wine knowledge is what they need. Let's see what wine courses we can learn in China.

ISG (International Sommelier Guild) is the most authoritative wine sommelier education institution in the world. It is also the only sommelier diploma issuing institution recognized by the US Department of Education. Founded 26 years ago, headquartered in Florida, USA, with branches in more than 6 cities around the world, the sommeliers trained are all over the top restaurants and five-star hotels in the United States and Europe, and they are the most sought-after talents in the catering industry.

WSET (full name wine &; Spirit Education Trust) was established in Britain in 1969, and is committed to high-quality wine and spirits education and training. Its top Master of Wine diploma is only over 2 people in the world, and it is the hottest authoritative certification in the wine industry. It has branches in more than 1 countries around the world.

WSET course mainly includes the primary to advanced knowledge of wine tasting, global wine producing areas, grape cultivation and brewing, wine classification, and the core knowledge of spirits.

WSET course is suitable for lovers who are willing to learn wine tasting, fashionable white-collar workers, high-end people and professionals who are authoritative buyers.

CIVB Wine School in Bordeaux is officially called L' Ecole Du Vin de Bordeaux in French and Bordeaux Wine School in English. Since 1992, the Institute has trained more than 1, wine educators, traders and lovers from all over the world. Bordeaux Wine Institute offers courses from elementary to advanced, with flexible class length, rich content and customization. The purpose of Bordeaux Wine Institute is to share the pleasure of tasting and the quality of wine.

The development of wine in China is getting faster and faster, but many people really don't understand the uniqueness of this wine when drinking it. Therefore, in order to adapt to the development trend of wine in China, wine education should also speed up the pace, popularize Chinese people, and let more people know about wine culture and enjoy the wonderful feeling brought by wine! [Edit this paragraph] The highest level of sommelier The highest level of sommelier is the Master of Wine from London Wine Institute, which is literally translated as a master of wine. But in fact, this is the most difficult qualification examination in the world. Since the establishment of the College in the 195s, only 24 people in the world have been qualified, distributed in 16 countries around the world, with Britain as the largest. If you don't want to be a professional sommelier, you can become a talent by self-study, at least in private. The simplest training method is to use a device called lenezduvin, which contains all kinds of pure flavoring agents, including dozens of main flavors that wine can decompose. As long as you memorize these smells, you can be inseparable. The difficulty is that many flavors commonly used to describe the aroma of wine, such as raspberry, gooseberry and western-style bacon and cheese, are very rare in China people's daily life, which greatly hinders China people's appreciation of wine, so wine is a luxury with high cultural content. [Edit this paragraph] The sommelier's wine tasting process is nothing more than four actions: seeing, smelling, tasting and spitting. First pour the wine into the cup, tilt it 45 degrees, and watch the color and appearance of the wine; Then shake the cup, then put your nose into the cup and inhale briefly; After that, take a sip, bulge your cheeks and let that sip of wine swirl in your mouth, fully contact with the taste buds, and finally, spit out the wine in your mouth. [Edit this paragraph] A sommelier is the best interpreter of wine culture. A sommelier is a person who can drink wine.

Drinking wine is an art of life, which always gives people a brand-new feeling and fascinates all wine lovers. For this reason, a large number of wine practitioners have emerged. They are addicted to wine culture and savor their own wine life attentively. They are also the disseminators of wine culture, so that wine culture can flourish.

driven by such a group of wine practitioners, the wine industry has also developed rapidly in the new century. However, it does not mean that all wine practitioners can completely and professionally master wine knowledge and understand the connotation of wine culture, because every link of wine from vineyard to brewing workshop, from planting to cellar, from designing wine list to recommending it to consumers is very complicated and strict, influenced by many factors, so many practitioners may only master the skills and knowledge they should have, and other links are only a rough understanding. However, there is a wine profession that must master a series of related knowledge from wine cultivation to brewing, from wine cellar storage to recommendation for consumers, and also have elegant taste, good aesthetic cultivation, keen fashion perception and extraordinary taste. The practitioners of this profession are sommeliers.

sommelier, people who come into contact with this profession for the first time think that this profession is a waiter who helps customers to open and pour wine. In fact, it is not. A qualified sommelier must have rich professional knowledge of wine, understand the collocation of various dishes and standard sommelier actions, know how to make wine lists and manage wine cellars, and have enough overall situation, steady temperament, grasp the inner feelings of dining guests, good communication skills and top service awareness.

"Serving" is culture

A sommelier conveys a culture to customers, which not only delights customers' taste buds, but also makes customers feel the beauty of wine culture from the deep heart. For example, mastering the best temperature of wine serving can create the most perfect taste for customers. Which dishes and which wines can make customers' meals more wonderful; Wonderful sober-up performance, bringing customers a perfect experience of spirit and senses; By observing the gender, age, clothing taste, mood, etc. of the guests, we recommend a wine that is most suitable for their present situation in humorous language, so that customers can truly understand the meaning given to this wine and satisfy them. A qualified sommelier must have a series of knowledge and skills to perfectly answer any wine questions raised by customers, whether it is the flavor, variety characteristics, vintage or local customs of the producing area. Therefore, it is not an easy task to train a qualified sommelier. It takes at least four to five years for him to grow up, and he also needs to go through many examinations in wine tasting before he can face customers. Therefore, in many high-end restaurants in international metropolises, sommeliers are scarce talents with high salaries. In foreign countries, an excellent sommelier can earn $6, to $1, a year, not including generous tips.

The sommelier industry has a history of development abroad for many years, but in China, it is still a profession that most people don't know. With the rapid pace of internationalization in China, many western catering behaviors have quietly influenced us, and sommeliers have become a shortage of talents in China at present. Therefore, sommeliers will be the golden profession in the future society, not only through their knowledge and skills, but also because they are the best interpreters of wine culture. [Edit this paragraph] The sommelier is the bridge of wine catering, leading the successful wine catering. He is not a winemaker or a chef, but a sommelier who has been neglected for a long time in the catering industry in Taiwan Province.

The winemaker didn't consider wine catering when making wine, and the chef didn't consider wine catering when cooking, so do you really want to drink wine with dishes? The answer is yes, because successful wine catering will have the feeling that 1+1 is greater than 2, and the feeling of eating dishes or drinking wine alone is not as good as the enjoyment of good wine catering, so there will be the knowledge of wine catering. The successful wine catering is not a winemaker or a chef, but a sommelier who has been neglected for a long time in the catering industry in Taiwan Province.

A sommelier is like a bridge between a chef and a winemaker. When the chef and the winemaker do their respective jobs, they can find out the fusion point of dishes and wines to make the taste feel better. The sommelier plays an important role in the restaurant. On the surface, he seems to sell wine in the restaurant, but in fact he controls the quality of a wine meal, so the sommelier's position abroad is very lofty.

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