Samantha Payne
Wine Consultant, Communicator, Sommelier
Over the course of her career, Samantha has travelled all around the world to discuss fine wine and worked with winemakers in various wine regions.
She is known for her speciality in Australian wine and because of this, she often speaks on panels and hosts events about the Australian wine and food landscape both nationally and internationally.
Samantha also writes about wine, spirits, food and travel regularly as the drinks writer for Gourmet Traveller and has also been featured in Concrete Playground, Broadsheet, Decanter (UK), Conde Nast Traveller (USA) and hosted the wine video channel 'How to Drink Wine with Samantha' on The Guardian alongside her regular features on The Guardian Australia.