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No Time for Bad Wine
Tom Firth spends most of his time running frantically from meeting to meeting, and tasting to tasting. With more than a decade of experience in the industry, Tom is a member of the Wine Access National Tasting Panel, a frequent contributor to Calgary's City Palate magazine and has written the Prairie Report for the Wine Access Canadian Wine Annual.
The Master's Peace on Wine
John Szabo is Canada's first and currently only Master Sommelier, earning the title in 2004. He has been working in the hospitality business for over 15 years. John manages an education and consulting firm, specializing in restaurant wine program design. He is editor of the Wine Access First-in-Line e-Report. John is also wine editor and columnist for Toronto's City Bites magazine.
DJ Drinks

DJ Kearney is a roving wine instructor (ISG and WSET), wine journalist and general hired gun. She roams over the western seaboard each week from Vancouver to San Diego with stops in Portland and Los Angeles teaching and tasting. DJ contributes frequently to Wine Access magazine and its National Tasting Panel. Spare time is spent travelling, consulting, wine-list writing, speaking about and judging wine. Any further spare time is spent preparing for the MW exams looming in the near future and at the gym coaxing life out of her marathon-destroyed knees.

 
Royale Around Town

Forever on the road and in endless restaurants, Brad Royale puts as much wine into his mouth as humanly possible. Overseeing the wine programs of nine restaurants and lodges throughout Alberta and British Columbia, Brad spends an unusual amount of time in and about the restaurant scene. Brad has completed the ISG Sommelier program and the WSET diploma. His travels include wine regions in Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, Austria, Germany, California, Oregon, Chile and Japan.