Sommelier craft

This performance study focuses on sommeliers, delving into what constitutes their work and the process of achieving this title. Sommeliers are wine specialists tasked with responsibility ensuring that beverages served properly in combination food. Similar to other craft persons, sommelier’s is connected knowledge products, primarily beverages, products’ relation different foods. The art tasting an acquired knowledge, embodied craft, a central professional competence determine quality beverages. Other elements sommelier communication guests, social how move room, spatial both which based influence contexts. highlights complexity aesthetic judgements sommeliers make through embodied, practices while decanting serving it guest. It uses video-reflexive ethnography emphasise aesthetics craft. carried out line guidelines International Sommelier Association. Simultaneously, some must be articulated verbally crafts importance understanding adopting service situation. Social, practices, sommelier, show developed willingness understand people satisfy guests. achieved by 'cognitive planning’, entails working diligently preparing enhance efficiency ‘situational adjustments’ occur real time improve optimise guest's experience.