My serious interest in wine started on my wedding day when a friend suggested letting a red wine “breathe” for an hour and discovering that I was able to taste the difference. Studying wine took me in the early eighties to the Wine Department of Christie’s Auction House where a six month series of tutored tastings with the likes of Jancis Robinson, Michael Broadbent, Stephen Spurrier, Serena Sutcliffe and others, made wine a lifelong pursuit. I hold WSET Advanced (Distinction).

In British Columbia, I worked for a number of years as a wine agency representative, managed a wine bistro in Victoria and founded the Victoria Wine Society. I began BCPinotNoir.com in 2011 with a first series of tastings and launched the site in the Summer of 2013.