From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishvintnervint‧ner /ˈvɪntnə $ -ər/ noun [countable] BODFD formal someone who buys and sells wines
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vintner• Ralemberg said he already had a buyer for the wine, a vintner living in Trinity.• But vintners made headway last year with the publication of new federal dietary guidelines that for the first time described those benefits.• Each vintner will host a wine-tasting session.• To make drinkable what wine was produced, the native vintners sweetened it with mulberries.• With high demand and continuing short supply, Schofield said vintners are resorting to other measures.• For years, vintners lobbied regulators without success for permission to advertise therapeutic or curative effects of wine.Origin vintner (1400-1500) Old French vinetier, from Latin vinetum “vineyard”, from vinum; → WINE1 