wine-taster

Suppose the pastor of a teetotalling church is asked to do the funeral for a liquor-store owner, a professional wine-taster, or the editor of Modern Drunkard magazine.

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There is this also to be remembered, that it is a sense which can be cultivated to a high degree; and in the wine-taster it is brought to the very pitch of excellence.

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

Charles Sanders Peirce was a wine-taster, IIRC, so winetasting made its contribution to pragmaticism Peirce's word and operationalism.

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The true amateur, the wine-taster, knows perfectly well how to look at and how to smell his wine; but he knows full well also that these two preliminaries ought to be immediately followed by the taking of the fluid into the front part of the mouth.

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

From that he learned to skirt, picking the dirt-encrusted edges off the fleeces and transferring them to bins ready for the attention of the classer, who was shed aristocrat: the man who like a wine-taster or a perfume-tester cannot be trained unless he also has instinct for the job.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

The true amateur, the wine-taster, knows perfectly well how to look at and how to smell his wine; but he knows full well also that these two preliminaries ought to be immediately followed by the taking of the fluid into the front part of the mouth.

The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

Fig. _n_, is a wine-taster, something on the principle of a siphon.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

There is this also to be remembered, that it is a sense which can be cultivated to a high degree; and in the wine-taster it is brought to the very pitch of excellence.

The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

A professional wine-taster could hardly be said to find intellectual delight in a bottle of good Champagne, real

Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888

"I _fink_," said he, smacking his lips with the suspicious air of a professional wine-taster;

Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881