Mollie Battenhouse

The Culinary Institute of America gave Mollie Battenhouse a formal base in food and hospitality before she moved deeper into wine. Her early part-time position at Best Cellars wine shop at Joshua Wesson's Best Cellars in Manhattan, New York City, put her inside the daily retail cycle: bottles coming open, customers asking questions, and decisions being made in real time. In a market like New York City, that kind of floor work teaches pace, vocabulary, and how to match a bottle to the person across the counter.

The move from retail to restaurants put Battenhouse into the Head Sommelier role at Tribeca Grill in New York City, where cellar knowledge had to meet the pressure of service. That position sits at the junction of the plate and the glass, and it asks for practical judgment rather than abstraction. From there, her shift to director of sales and Business Development at V.O.S. Selections widened the frame again, taking her beyond the dining room and into the commercial structure that moves wine through the trade.

Her current work keeps education in the foreground. Since 2016, Mollie Battenhouse has served as National Director of Wine Education and ambassador for Oregon Wines of Jackson Family Wines, pairing internal training with a public-facing role in wine communication. She also teaches at the International Wine Center, where the same trade knowledge has to hold up in a classroom setting. Alongside that, her work as a partner of Ringlt, Inc./Wine Ring shows a career that has moved across hospitality, instruction, and business without leaving the trade behind.

She serves as National Director of Wine Education at Jackson Family Wines. Outside that corporate role, she teaches at the International Wine Center.

Mollie Battenhouse has received Advanced Sommelier, Court of Master Sommeliers.