Definition of "wine-taster" [wine-taster]

• One whose business it is to taste or Sample Wines. (noun)
• Same as sampling-tube. Compare pipette,2. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "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."
• "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 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."