I am one of the Co-Founder of an agency based in Montréal called Ward & Associes. I have a self taught approach to wine, with many travels around the world and of course lots and lots of tasting/reading. In the last few years I worked as an apprentice viticulturist in some vineyards here in Quebec.
With Ward & Associes we have tried to bring wine outside the box a little and focused more on northern to central European wines. The main focus was to bring that extra wine source diversity and also we realized that those wines would travel extremely well across the Atlantic to Montréal.
For the last 2 years we have also partnered in the Vin Vin Vin wine bar.