Amie Fields

Amie is a co-founder and Director of Sales and Brand Development at Botanist and Barrel Winery & Cidery in central North Carolina. After a lifelong career in wine, sourcing, importing and distributing, Amie realized that the winemakers have all the fun. She wanted to make the type of wild and raw ciders that she and her husband enjoyed drinking and couldn’t find in the US, so she teamed up with her husband Lyndon Smith and sister-in-law Kether Smith in 2017 and Botanist and Barrel Cidery and Winery was born. Amie is also certified through the Court of Master Sommeliers, has judged at the Great Lakes International Wine and Perry Competition, the Virginia Governor’s Cup and has been a panelist speaker at CiderCon®. Amie’s expertise in tasting, evaluating and finding balance is invaluable in creating new and exciting ciders and wines. At Botanist and Barrel, she loves focusing on minimal intervention winemaking in order to showcase a living product’s terroir. These days you can find her in Asheville’s new Botanist and Barrel Tasting Bar and Bottle shop tirelessly working on changing the way people think about natural cider and wine.

Amie choose to become a Certified Pommelier™ to give her more confidence to mentor others. Having the accreditation and the support of the ACA has also allowed cider to take a place on the worldwide stage which has brought new attention to this historic beverage. Through education she hopes to change the way people think about fruit wine and cider and give it the shine that it deserves!