Amanda McCrossin

Wine Director at PRESS Restaurant

Bio

Amanda McCrossin is the Wine Director at PRESS Restaurant in Napa Valley. As the founder and creator of the popular wine-focused Instagram and YouTube channel “SommVivant." Amanda’s presence can be felt globally as a wine personality and educator for consumers and professionals alike. A Philadelphia suburbs native, Amanda’s introduction to wine came while living in Manhattan working as an actress. As her interest in wine grew, Amanda shifted gears and under the guidance of notable mentors and the American Sommelier Association began pursuing her career in wine. After several years working as a sommelier in New York City, she headed west to Napa Valley in 2015 when the opportunity to work with the award-winning wine program at PRESS Napa Valley - a wine list that is has earned multiple awards and accolades for being the largest, deepest restaurant collection of Napa Valley wines in the world. SOMMVIVANT was developed soon thereafter as a way to document her new chapter as a sommelier at PRESS and a wine lover living in Napa Valley. As the channels grew, Amanda’s self-produced content iterated to focus on wine guidance ranging from the ultra-premium to easy to find wines under $15 as well as a go to resource for visitors planning out their winery itinerary in Napa Valley. In January 2019 Amanda succeeded founding Wine Directors Scott Brenner & Kelli White to become the first Wine Director to oversee the wine program in almost a decade. Today, Amanda is widely recognized as an authority on Napa Valley wines and was a 2018 Wine Enthusiast Wine Star Nominee for “Sommelier of the Year.”