Cic·e·rone
ˈsi-sə-ˌrōn 
—used for someone who is a certified expert in the production, evaluation, and service of craft beer
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Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
Here our cicerone stopped and turned back to address us.
—Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
Producing full-bodied, low-carb beers can be difficult, but the challenge has inspired innovation, Katherine Benecke, a cicerone at Treadwell Park in New York City, told Fox News Digital.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025
The advanced cicerone — a cicerone is like a sommelier, but for beer rather than wine — also writes a Substack about drinking and music, Beer & Soul.
—Chloe Veltman, NPR, 13 June 2025
In both her garden and her paintings, color is the cicerone that guides Lauter’s audience through emotional journeys fraught with personal iconography and symbolic meditations on life and mortality.
—Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 6 Sep. 2024
Founder and brew master David Reese is the only advanced cicerone in the state and one of only 139 in the world, earning this certification for his advanced knowledge of beer and flavors.
—Kelsey Ogletree, Southern Living, 16 Jan. 2024
Dealing with the passion of the artist through the complexity of the man, Cooper inhabits Bernstein and Maestro’s compositions with Nézet-Séguin as his cicerone.
Like Maestro Cooper, Nézet-Séguin lost himself within the music of the film and the power of the art form while channeling Bernstein.
—A.d. Amorosi, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
Monosoff is also a certified cicerone — which means she’s trained to taste, evaluate and serve beer — and a master sommelier, the highest distinction for a wine expert.
—Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2020
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Jen Blair, 45, is one of 28 master cicerones, or beer experts, in the world, only five of whom are women.
—Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
Here our cicerone stopped and turned back to address us.
—Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
Producing full-bodied, low-carb beers can be difficult, but the challenge has inspired innovation, Katherine Benecke, a cicerone at Treadwell Park in New York City, told Fox News Digital.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025
The advanced cicerone — a cicerone is like a sommelier, but for beer rather than wine — also writes a Substack about drinking and music, Beer & Soul.
—Chloe Veltman, NPR, 13 June 2025
In both her garden and her paintings, color is the cicerone that guides Lauter’s audience through emotional journeys fraught with personal iconography and symbolic meditations on life and mortality.
—Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 6 Sep. 2024
Founder and brew master David Reese is the only advanced cicerone in the state and one of only 139 in the world, earning this certification for his advanced knowledge of beer and flavors.
—Kelsey Ogletree, Southern Living, 16 Jan. 2024
Dealing with the passion of the artist through the complexity of the man, Cooper inhabits Bernstein and Maestro’s compositions with Nézet-Séguin as his cicerone.
Like Maestro Cooper, Nézet-Séguin lost himself within the music of the film and the power of the art form while channeling Bernstein.
—A.d. Amorosi, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
Monosoff is also a certified cicerone — which means she’s trained to taste, evaluate and serve beer — and a master sommelier, the highest distinction for a wine expert.
—Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2020
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“Cicerone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cicerone. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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