1. A wine merchant: The menu at the restaurant included various alcoholic beverages from local vintners and wonderful fish dishes with fresh vegetables.
2. A winemaker: A vintner is someone who is engaged in winemaking and is usually employed by wineries or wine companies, where the work includes:

• Cooperating with various viticulturists.
• Monitoring the maturity of grapes to ensure their quality and to determine the correct time for harvesting them.
• The crushing and pressing of the grapes.
• Monitoring the settling of juice and the fermentation of grape material.
• Filtering the wine to remove remaining solids that should not be there.
• Testing the quality of wine by tasting it.
• Placing filtered wine in casks or tanks for storage and maturation.
• Preparing plans for bottling wine once it has matured.
• Making sure that quality is maintained when the wine is bottled.

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