Today this extraordinary Italian grape varietal is enjoying attention from sommeliers who praise its food-friendly phenolics.
"I don't believe there is such thing as job security for sommeliers, " he said.
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Oenophiles and food lovers can parlay their passion into careers as sommeliers and chefs.
"Servers don't really like sommeliers because they don't think they work as much, " said Mr. Madrigale.
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"I'm amazed at what I can sell to people, " said Joe, sounding like many sommeliers I know.
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The Court of Master Sommeliers, established in 1977, weighs appearance and performance nearly as high as knowledge.
Today he agrees that one main reason for the spreading buzz is the interest of restaurant sommeliers and chefs.
In fact, if it weren't for this country's sommeliers, I don't think anyone would be drinking German Riesling at all.
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Chris Adams, the president of Sherry-Lehmann in New York, noted another thread that connects the two: Sommeliers help to drive business to stores.
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"Chefs and sommeliers are our people, because they are the ones with trained noses, and they're the ones that know their stuff, " she says.
"It's not just sommeliers, but high-end retailers who are making the market, " said Evan Spingarn, German-brand manager for New York-based wine importer David Bowles.
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But he also needs to empower the wait staff to sell wines, and holds regular tastings for the entire staff, not just the sommeliers.
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And yes, German Riesling requires not just a promise of tasting but of full emotional commitment just ask the sommeliers who are drinking (and selling) the stuff.
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Today, we could trace a lineage of owners, managers, chefs and sommeliers who began their careers at Windows, and went on to revolutionize the U.S. dining scene.
Apparently the sommeliers (from Germany and the U.K.) that the company had hired to help sell its wines overseas asked if Jackson Family Wines produced an Oregon Pinot.
The airline also offers a "Vienna coffee house in the air" and one quarter of flight attendants are trained sommeliers to guide passengers through the extensive wine list.
Michael Madrigale, 34 years old, runs the wine programs at Bar Boulud and Boulud Sud with help of four sommeliers (or "soms, " as they say in professional parlance).
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Unlike traditional food festivals, the small size allows the no more than 80 guests to rub elbows with their instructors, including chefs, sommeliers, fine food purveyors and even farmers.
Mr. Morris, who is also the author of "Inside Burgundy" (2010), has assembled an impressive-looking team, including four Masters of Wine, the wine trade's highest qualification, and two master sommeliers.
In another key aspect of her new strategy, Ms. McDonald has limited her target group of customers to head chefs, sommeliers and luxury hotel managers in Europe, the Mideast and Asia.
Italian Two One Two Bar and Grill and pan-Asian restaurant Ocean also make for an interesting curation by Friends of Restaurant Week, a group of bloggers, connoisseurs and sommeliers responsible for selecting the participating restaurants.
"Chenin is France's answer to German Riesling, " said Daniel Johnnes, the wine director of Daniel Boulud's restaurant group, at a recent gathering of New York sommeliers in my living room as we prepared to taste some 25 Chenins.
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Fortunately, that energy still lives on in Kevin Zraly, as well as Michael LaMonica, the last Chef Director and the numerous employees who have gone on to be owners, managers, chefs and sommeliers, carrying that energy and tradition forward.
In some company this statement could clear the room fast, but sommeliers love Riesling, despite the relative skepticism of the American drinking public, and they also tend to love Chenin, for some of the same reasons it's relatively high-acid, which makes it food-friendly and lively even when it has residual sugar.
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Of course, sommeliers are invited to play golf as well some I know have even been taken on private planes to Burgundy by their best customers. (No, I won't be naming names.) And both retailers and sommeliers have been known to accept importer- or distributor-sponsored trips to visit key producers, whose wines will presumably end up on wine lists and store shelves.
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There are also sommeliers who know a lot about wine but don't like the labor that comes with the job: "They tend to spend more time acquiring degrees than working the floor, " said Mr. Johnnes, who once hired a sommelier who could name all of the subregions of the Loire (there are quite a few) but didn't enjoy the physical part of the work.
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