If you are considering a career in cooking and you are a lover of wine, then working for the position of the Sommelier or the Wine Steward is the best cooking career choice for you. A Sommelier is a trained professional who works in fine restaurants. A Sommelier specializes in all the aspects of serving wine. It is a much more sophisticated role as compared to that of a wine waiter. A Sommelier has the principal job of procuring and storing wine, handling the wine storage rotation and of providing expert advice about wine to the customers of the restaurant. As a Sommelier, you will also be responsible for the development of wine lists. You will also be in charge of the delivery of the wine service and for the training of the restaurant staff with regards to the wine. A Sommelier will also suggest the pairing of wine along with the different kinds of foods that are served in the restaurant. Thus, to become a Sommelier, you would need to have good knowledge of how different foods complement and combine with different kinds of wine, beer, spirits and other beverages.

Here's a nice ice-breaker to try out at your next party. Tell the person you are talking to that more wine is produced in the United States than beer. Then watch the surprised looks on their faces. Now try telling them that we import more wine than beer, and you'll really get some skeptical looks. Places like Australia's Gold Coast etched out places on the wine-production map based on the quantity and quality that their product has brought to the international in the past decade or so. Any top sommelier will mention the Land Down Under in the same breath as Italy, France, Argentina, Chile, and California. Why is this? Well indirectly it is because there is an expanded interested in wine across the board. No longer is it considered something the nectar of the Gods or exclusive to the bourgeoisie. Nowadays, it's an all-inclusive culture. It has spread to the masses making as an old beverage reinvented itself yet once again. Everyone from the connoisseur to the Natural Light drinker caught on to wine's appeal, thus its popularity in recent years in America.