Historical clue formulations

• Position at a food company — 2025-05-09
• Kitchen sampler — 2024-09-01
• Brewery employee — 2022-03-06
• Small sample, to Brits — 2021-04-17
• Court figure whose job is to detect 36-Across — 2018-08-17
• Employee of a paranoid king — 2015-04-14
• Wine judge, e.g. — 2014-09-25
• Wine expert — 2003-01-21
• Oenologist, at times — 2002-03-27
• Vintner's employee — 2001-11-04
• Wine expert, maybe — 2001-05-22
• Sipping specialist — 2000-03-22
• One who sips — 1997-10-22
• Sampler — 1997-09-22
• Royal assistant — 1995-07-02
• Sampler — 1994-08-18
• Checker, maybe — 1994-01-01