Kelli A. White is the director of education for the Wine Center at Meadowood in Napa Valley. Prior to that, she worked as a sommelier, first at New York City’s Veritas and then at PRESS in St. Helena. In 2013, she was named one of the top sommeliers in the country by Food & Wine magazine. Her writing, for which she won two coveted Roederer Awards, has appeared in many of the world’s top wine publications. In 2015, she published the award-winning book, Napa Valley, Then & Now. She has since contributed to several other notable books including the World Atlas of Wine, the Oxford Companion to Wine, On California, On Champagne, as well as the forthcoming On Burgundy. In 2011, she co-founded a small wine brand called Houndstooth and she also made a brief appearance in 2015's documentary Somm II: Into the Bottle. In 2016, White led a wine tasting seminar at Fortune Magazine's Most Powerful Women's Summit. She was nominated for Sommelier/Wine Director of the Year (2017) by Wine Enthusiast magazine, who then named her a top 40 Under 40 wine influencer in 2018. In 2021, she was named a member of the Bay Area chapter of Les Dames d'Escoffier, and she currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Wine Writers' Symposium. White has made select television and film appearances, including 67 Pall Mall TV and SommTV. She is also the proud mother of three-year old Ziggy. (Napa, CA) @kelliwhitewine