EditorialThe sommelier and chef Munashe Kwaramba works in his restaurant Hari Kitchen on the Topiary Wine Estate in Franschhoek, South Africa, Feb. 11, 2023. (Samantha Reinders/The New York Times)
EditorialA sommelier recommends wine to customers at Osteria Alla Concorrenza, the second restaurant from Diego Rossi, the celebrated chef at Trippa, in Milan, Oct. 17, 2022. (Alessandro Grassani/The New York Times)
EditorialTelly Justice outside the storefront where she and sommelier Camille Lindsley plan to open HAGS, a self-described “queer fine-dining restaurant”, in. Manhattan, March 18, 2022. (Desmond Picotte/The New York Times)
EditorialStaff at Freya, a new tasting-menu restaurant, from left: Thor Jones, general manager; Ben Robinson, pastry chef; Doug Hewitt, co-owner; Phoebe Zimmerman, chef de cuisine; Sandy Levine, co-owner; and Catherine Kurth, beverage director and sommelier, in Detroit, Feb. 19, 2022. (Elaine Cromie/The New York Times)
EditorialYannick Benjamin, a sommelier and one of the owners of Contento, puts together the wine list, in East Harlem on Aug. 6, 2021. (Colin Clark/The New York Times)
EditorialA man identified by fire officials as Caleb Ganzer setting a dining shed outside a Manhattan restaurant on fire. (New York City Fire Department via The New York Times)
EditorialMichelin introduced a sommelier award this year, and for New York it was given to Miguel de Leon at Pinch Chinese. (Clay Williams/The New York Times)
EditorialEtinosa Emokpae, who was hired in August 2019 as the sommelier at Friday Saturday Sunday and has been out of work since March 2020, in Philadephia, March 2, 2021 (Hannah Yoon/The New York Times)
EditorialMarie-Louise Friedland, who said Devon Broglie, chairman of the Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas, pursued her sexually while he was her mentor for the master sommelier title, in Alpharetta, Ga., on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. (Nydia Blas/The New York Times)
EditorialMadeleine Thompson, left, and Courtney Keeling, sommeliers in Texas, said that they had dropped their pursuit of the master sommelier title because of sexual harassment, in Dallas, Oct. 13, 2020. (Allison V. Smith/The New York Times)
EditorialStephen Satterfield, a publisher who calls himself a "recovering sommelier," in Los Angeles, March 4, 2018. (Jake Michaels/The New York Times)
EditorialPaul Valentin Fr?hling, left, the sommelier, welcomes co-owner Stephan Landwehr and his wife Kirsten Landwehr as Pauly Saal, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Berlin, reopens on May 20, 2020. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)