Power English 07/27/24: The World of Water Sommeliers

🍪 Article

The word sommelier conjures up images of a well-dressed man or woman carefully pouring an expensive bottle of wine and describing the flavors, smells, and mouth feel of its contents. But did you know there are sommeliers for water? The increased popularity of fizzy alcoholic drinks in the U.S. may have opened the door for the water sommelier movement. And the process of tasting and judging water both still and sparkling – is quite similar to that of a wine sommelier. These experts claim different waters can bring out different flavors in certain foods. But is it just a fad or are water sommeliers here to stay?

 

🍪 Power expressions

✅ Conjure up something: to recall thoughts or images of something

 - ~을 상기시키다, ~을 떠올리게 하다.

 - e.g. In the movie 'Conjuring', they are bringing that ghost out. It was not real, but they made it real. That's why the movie was titled. 

 - e.g. The word sommelier conjures up images of a well-dressed man or woman carefully pouring an expensive bottle of wine and describing the flavors, smells, and mouth fill of its contents.

 

✅ Open the door for something: In a figurative sense, you are giving the opportunity for something to happen.

 - ~으로의 길을 열어주다, ~을 가능하게 하다

 - e.g. The increased popularity of fizzy alcoholic drinks movement in the U.S. may have opened the door for the water sommelier movement. 

   * fizzy: (of a beverage) containing bubbles of gas; effervescent. "fizzy mineral water"

 

✅ Bring out something: to make something more noticeable. It's always there, but you are intensifying, making something a little bit stronger.

 - ~을 이끌어내다, ~을 눈에 띄게 만들다

 - e.g. These experts claim different waters can bring out different flavors in certain foods.

 

🍪 Personal Picks

✅ But did you know there are sommeliers for water? 물 소믈리에가 있다는 것을 아시나요?

 - "Did you know something" is used when you want to introduce your topic laying the groundwork everyone is familiar with, make a very general statement that is true, and then hone in on something. This expression is often used in articles or presentations.
   * "Hone in on something" means to focus or zero in on a specific detail or topic. It can be paraphrased as "zoom in on something".

 

✅ But is it just a fad or are water sommeliers here to stay? 물 소믈리에는 단지 유행일까요, 아니면 일반적으로 받아들여지고 있는걸까요?

   * "Fad" means an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived and without basis in the object's qualities; a craze.

   * If you say "something is here to stay", you mean that people have accepted it and it has become a part of everyday life.

 

✅ I wish you drink it! 한번 마셔보세요!

 

✅Originally, sommeliers were experts in wine, but now it's grown into a more general thing. Experts in something.