Wine is a little like love; when the right one comes along, you know it.
Wine, run as a P&L, not a passion project.
Wine is too financially important to be handled by habit. Most venues are leaking money in four places at once: wine cost running too high against beverage revenue, margin no one’s watching, cash tied up in dead stock, and a manager spending paid hours buying wine they were never trained to buy. A managed program closes all four. I’m accountable for the numbers, not just the taste.
I work with producers built on quality and tradition, the kind the international market overlooks. I bring them in, translate what makes them matter, and put them in your guests’ hands.
My judgment is never for sale, and the wines in my portfolio earned their place because our goal is the same: a list that makes money, fits your menu, and pours stories no one down the street can get.
As a fully licensed wine agency and importer in British Columbia and Alberta, Carpa Vino handles the complex logistics of liquor clearance, BCLDB/AGLC compliance, warehousing, and private order management. We bridge the gap between global artisan winemakers and premium Western Canadian hospitality venues.
