Of, for, or connected with the production, sale, storing, or use of wine, as wine-barrel, wine basket, wine-bin, wine-bottle, wine-bowl, wine box, win…

One who deals in or sells wine; a wine-merchant; †an innkeeper selling wine.

One engaged in the trade of sampling, bottling, or retailing wine; a wine-cooper.

merchant vintner. (Cf. merchant, n. 1 and merchant tailor, n., etc.) Obsolete.

= cooper, n.1 2.

(see quot. 1706).

a distiller or retailer of spirits.

In Spain: a wine dealer and stockholder who buys sherry directly from the producer and sells it on to bottlers or shippers.

A wine merchant.