Samantha is the Fine Wine Ambassador and Private Client Services Manager for Select Wines and sister agency Icon Vins Fins. Her clients refer to her affectionately as ’The Wine Fairy’, having spent the better part of the last couple of years dropping boxes of wine (joy) on people’s doorsteps. She spends her leisure time, when not driving around with a car full of fine wine for you, as a passionate vegetable garden at her home in Pemberton, with her taller half (he still works in the fine dining trenches in Whistler) and their two tabbies, Francis and Fleurie. Samantha is a dedicated downhill mountain biker in the Whistler Bike Park (hopefully the bruises will be all healed before Cornucopia!) and is a former competitive, now recreational, snowboarder.

Samantha’s background prior to joining Select Wines was in restaurants, most recently serving at Wine Director at Whistler’s Araxi Restaurant from 2007-2018. Samantha was awarded BC Sommelier of the Year from the Vancouver International Wine Festival and Vancouver Magazine in 2013, one of only two women (so far!) and the first and only time the award has gone to someone outside of metro Vancouver. She is a proud Ambassador of Whistler Cornucopia, an in-demand seminar presenter, and has served as judge for several wine competitions.