Crystal Cameron-Schaad is the owner and lead educator at Crystal Palate, a wine boutique, tasting room, and wine education center, in Norfolk, Virginia.
Crystal is a Diploma graduate with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET). She is also a certified wine educator with WSET and offers the L1-L3 WSET Award in Wines at Crystal Palate as a satellite provider for VItis House and teaches L3 at Vitis House in Raliegh.
She is also a certified sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers, a keynote speaker, and writer. Crystal is a member of the Guild of Sommeliers and the Society of Wine Educators.
Crystal is an award-winning journalist who spent more than a decade working in the broadcast industry as an anchor and reporter before pursuing her passion for the fruit of the vine. She also served as a national public relations director for a Fortune 500 company, communications director on Capitol Hill, and Press Secretary for a Gubernatorial Campaign.
When she is not exploring the world of wine, she enjoys volunteering at her church Galilee Episcopal in Virginia Beach where she is a member of the Vestry and Prayer Team. Crystal is an avid reader and loves to travel to wine regions around the world and spend quality time with her husband, WAVY-TV 10 news anchor, Tom Schaad and her sweet Golden Retriever Gracie.
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