oenophilistn.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxxi Are the Vegetarians to bellow ‘Cabbage for ever’? and may we modest Œnophilists not sing the praises of our favourite plant?

1893 J. A. Symonds In Key of Blue 37 Those surprises which reward the diligent œnophilist in Italy.

1950 Philos. Q. 1 26 It has not been sufficiently observed that the instances given by Plato are concerned with ends—the lover, the oenophilist, the ambitious, the naturally curious.

1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe viii. 123 When I glanced at the Burnside nose I persuaded myself that it was actually twitching—much as the nose of an oenophilist may do at the whiff of a particularly appealing claret.

1999 Occasions July 54/1 We are introducing a regular wine column by Margareta Svensson, a wine enthusiast and would-be oenophilist.