Taster: A taster is a specialist who appreciates the quality of a drink or food by taste. No instrument has managed to match a well-trained human palate, particularly in the wine sector. There is in Paris a Company of brokers-gourmets-piqueurs (named after a kind of gimlet which one "pricked" in the barrel to take a sample) of wines, whose origins go back to Philippe le Bel (*) , and responsible, among other things, to taste the wines, at the request of the courts ...
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