Sommelier Job Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities of Sommelier

Sommelier is also called senior sommelier, and the international name is Sommelier. Sommelier originates from French and specifically refers to the waiter who is responsible for drinks in hotels and restaurants. It refers to the professional drinks knowledge and skills in the hotel, providing alcohol services and consultation to guests, and is responsible for menu design, wine identification, tasting, purchasing, Sales and cellar management professionals.

A sommelier must have basic aesthetic accomplishments, a sensitive sense of fashion, noble taste and appreciation. The growth period of a qualified sommelier takes at least four to five years, and it takes almost five years to become a master sommelier.

The origin of the sommelier

The profession of sommelier is said to have originated from the French aristocratic society in the Middle Ages. At that time, there was a kind of waiter called "bete de somme?" One of the duties is to use a silver tasting plate to test whether the wine has been poisoned. Later, the "bete de somme" gradually spread to private restaurants and evolved into the "Sommellerie". The English "Sommelier" evolved from this.

The "Michelin Guide", a book regarded as the Bible of French cuisine, defines the responsibilities of a sommelier in this way: to serve the orders of the banquet host. Provide wine pairing suggestions for dishes, use ice buckets to control the appropriate drinking temperature of champagne and white wine, operate the decanter to change bottles and decanter red wine, open bottles for guests and check the quality of the wine, pour wine for guests, and answer guests' questions about wine Various questions raised, etc.

In recent years, the Chinese wine market has developed extremely rapidly, and sommeliers, who represent high-end services in the catering and hotel industries, have also begun to become popular in the market. Professional talents. As a high-end wine service club in China, Qishuo Winery has the most professional team of sommeliers to provide perfect wine tasting services and professional wine training for wine lovers;