Meet our Celebration Specialists
Meet Our Growers
Iza Feyeux
This wine wizard and fatcork mother hen wears many hats. Eighteen years in the restaurant and hospitality world has made her a master of multitasking and cultivating relationships. It has also inspired her to share her love of Champagne with the masses. Besides operations, she focuses on staff education, creative copywriting, social media and imports and relationships with our vignerons. On most days you can find Iza in her kitchen whipping up something good, entertaining friends, and begging her better half for daily foot massages.
Anna Abel
Anna is a true artist. As a leader of our creative team, she not only contributes her innovative ideas, but she is also an expert at bringing our vision to fruition with creative branding and identity design, marketing, custom packaging, illustration, art direction and styling. We’re so lucky to have her! Outside of work, Anna has her hands full with a little one at home, but always finds time for her artwork, quality time with her hubby, and traveling!
Jennifer Pinto
As part of our creative team, Jennifer shares her visionary prose while overseeing and elevating the voice and tone of all fatcork editorial, branded and marketing materials. She is a published freelance writer with a degree in magazine journalism, and we are grateful for her expertise, inventive ideas, knack for grammar and unparalleled skill at parallel construction. Jennifer loves the great outdoors, Dua Lipa, wearing stripes, and time with family.
Edra Colbeck
A former water polo competitor, Edra brings her knack for communication, goal-setting, visualization and coolness under pressure to the tasting room, and we’re pumped to have her on our team. Born and raised in Seattle, Edra whet her wine industry appetite by managing tasting rooms in nearby Woodinville, Washington. But Champagne is her true passion, so the fatcork cave is a felicitous next step. When she’s not making sure all cave operations happen seamlessly, you will find Edra taking pictures, wandering through museums or searching out new restaurants to add to her ever-expanding Yelp collection.
Sam Dimmock
Whatever tasks need tackling — from installing new racking and taking out mountains of recycling to fulfilling orders and meticulously keeping track of the vast array of fatcork inventory — Sam makes it happen with aplomb. An avid golfer, Sam discovered fatcork via our cameo on "The Shotgun Start" podcast. Smitten with grower Champagne and our mantra “celebrate every day,” he reached out to Bryan and Iza, and the rest is history. In his free time, Sam enjoys golfing (of course), rooting for his favorite Seattle sports teams, playing with his dog and spending time with friends and family.
Abigail Belknap
Abigail may come from Kentucky bourbon country, but she’s all in on grower Champagne. Thursday through Saturday, you’ll find her in the fatcork tasting room, guiding tastings, helping guests choose the perfect bottle and organizing special events — all with finesse of a bona fide hospitality aficionado and a tried and true francophile. Abigail speaks French, lived in France for a time, married a Frenchman and would, as she says, “die for cheese.” Like someone else we know, Abigail became fascinated with grower Champagne during a visit to the region that had her ankle-deep in a muddy vineyard, a glass of the most delicious bubbles she’d ever tasted in hand.
Lori VerMurlen
Pop by on a weekend, and you’re sure to meet Lori. A native Minnesotan, Lori has mastered the art of making sure guests are happy and Champagne glasses are full with an enthusiastic “you betcha” attitude that makes everyone she meets feel instantly at ease. Plus, she could chat forever about grower Champagne. When she’s not working the tasting room or special fatcork events, you’ll find her looking for outdoor adventure in the mountains, on the water or wherever she can find it.