remueurn.
/ˌrɛmjuːˈəː/, U.S. /ˌrɛmjuˈər/ Winemaking.
A person whose job is to turn and shake bottles of sparkling wine in the process of remuage; a riddler.
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1872 Leeds Mercury 2 Nov. 12/3 The bottles are thus turned quite round and back again before they are required for exportation... This process, simple as it may appear, requires to be performed by the remueur—or suppose we call him the shaker—with great care.
1906 Times 15 Dec. 9/6 A clever ‘remueur’ will handle as many as 30,000 bottles in one day.
1926 P. M. Shand Bk. Wine v. 154 The remueur's task is gradually to work down all the sediment.
1976 N. Roberts Face of France xxv. 229 The man who does the tilting and turning [of champagne bottles] is called a remueur... He can handle 30,000 bottles a day.
1992 Evening Standard (Nexis) 3 Aug. 33 In Moet's cellars we encountered a remueur bicycling towards us through the gloom like a resistance hero ferrying messages in the black-out.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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