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means A trained wine steward who selects, stores, and recommends wines, usually in a restaurant setting.

from French, from 'sommelier,' an official in charge of transport and provisions in a medieval household. That traces back further to 'sommier,' a pack animal or baggage carrier, rooted in Old Provençal 'saumalier' — someone who drove the pack horses. So the word's ancestry is less about taste and more about hauling the baggage train; the job slowly climbed from stable hand to cellar keeper to the person now swirling your glass under a chandelier.