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Amanda Mccrossin

Amanda Mccrossin

Sommelier

Sep 15, 2026

5:14
And then we'll talk a little bit the transition away from press to your media into your media world.
5:21
Yeah, I mean, I still get goosebumps talking about Press and working there.
5:26
I loved it so much.
5:28
It was such a big chapter of my life, and it changed my life in every way possible.
5:33
I moved to Napa Valley for that job.
5:36
It was really kind of weird happenstance that I even got it.
5:39
But when I moved there, it was when Scott and Kelly were running the wine program.

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12:51
So how does that balance out for you?
10:57
um what do you mean ice in your wine well so tell us tell us about ice gate
11:03
Well, Ice Gate happened because last year I did some content with Wine Enthusiast, and one of the things that we had talked about was this idea of putting ice in your wine.
11:14
And I sort of substantiated it, I guess, by saying there is this thing called La Piscine.
11:22
It exists in the south of France.
11:23
It's something that you do where you literally put ice in either your sparkling wine or your still wine, and it's called La Piscine a la the pool, right? Yeah.
11:30
And so I made this video and I truly did not know that it was going to explode in the way that it did.
11:39
And not only explode, it was probably the most polarizing thing I've ever seen in my life.

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18:20
I'm sorry to interrupt you.

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