Simi’s career with food & wine traces back to her freshman year at NYU when she fully began to realize how much joy she took in cooking. Since then Simi has been immersed in positions from New York City, London, and San Francisco that allowed her to gain a holistic understanding of the hospitality and restaurant industries with a specialization in wine and beverage. Simi holds a Certified Sommelier credential from The Court of Master Sommeliers, as well as a Certified Wine Professional (CWP) and Certified Specialist of Wine (CSW) through the Culinary Institute of America and Society of Wine Educators, respectively. When she's not immersed in the wine world, she also loves watching European football and hanging with golden retrievers. @simi1612

Bethany has been in the wine and beverage industry for over ten years. A native Californian, Bethany first began pouring wine at InnerFog in the Inner Sunset in 2010. She moved to New York City in 2012, where she worked at an upscale wine bar in the Upper West Side and a cocktail bar in Brooklyn. She took her love of wine and spirits to a new level in 2019 by receiving her Level 2 Award from the Wine and Spirits Educational Trust. Bethany is thrilled to be back living in San Francisco and joining the team at DECANTsf. When she’s not slinging drinks, Bethany is a professional contemporary dancer and has toured to over forty countries abroad. She also writes and plays her own music on guitar and piano and plays gigs around San Francisco!

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Sam has five years of experience in a variety of positions within the wine industry. She first got her start in wine at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo where she earned her degree in Wine And Viticulture. From there she embarked on the harvest trail, splitting time between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere’s premiere wine regions as a winemaking intern. Her repertoire includes Napa, New Zealand’s Central Otago, Croatia’s Adriatic Islands, Australia’s Mornington Peninsula, Oregon’s Willamette Valley, and Chile’s Maule Valley. While she misses the thrills of traveling she is happy to have landed her current full-time title as a Lead Cellar Assistant with Scribe in Sonoma, where she assists the head winemaker in all things wine production, from stomping grapes and monitoring fermentations, to labeling and bottling finished wines. While the cellar offers a unique perspective into wine’s extensive lifecycle, she missed the service world and the ability to interact with wine on a personal basis aka Saturdays at Decant! When she’s not thinking about wine, find her cooking for relaxation, making wine in her garage, and exploring her new home: San Francisco!