Village Intro

I should also mention that at the moment I'm working at a lil boutique wine store by the name of Village Wines, in Kitsilano. It's a cosy nook only a few blocks from where I live. It's convenience at its best I suppose and stocked full of some of the best VQA wines BC has to offer. We're consignment also so forget those hefty markups!
So why Village? Well I'll tell you. Besides the obvious logistics of the location, coming from Ontario, I felt it was ofcourse necessary to start getting familiar with some of the cult wineries out in BC. I was always exposed to the larger producers out East, you know Blasted Church, Inniskilin, N'kimip, Osoyoos Larose, Mission Hill, just to name a few, but it was the little guys making big waves whom I was more interested in getting to know. So what better way than to work in an all exclusive BC wine store. I had just returned from a summer over in Indonesia, visiting my parents and missed the beginning of the harvest recruitment. I had a shiny new mortgage and needed a paycheck pronto. The truth be known, I've fallen in love with Village and the close knit community that keeps coming back day after day. My regulars as I like to call them. The people that gaze aimlessly into my eyes, wondering what the hell they're going to pair with their proscuitto wrapped halibut or cherry braised lamb shank (my last two customers) It's sometimes hard to abstain from almost immediate salivation but I manage to compose myself and then I disapear for a few seconds while I imagine myself eating their beautiful meal at my own dinner table. Yes, I am a foodie. You see I have this theory and correct me if I'm wrong but I strongly believe that almost all, if not all people who are truly passionate about their wine are in turn as dualy passionate about their food. However, the reverse is not always the case. A foodie is not necessarily, nor may he or she ever have the desire to become a wino. Wino, I hate that word, so much pretention attached to it. I'm going to stop using it. Starting now!