Product Consultant
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Product Consultants are the wine experts for Vintages, the fine and rare wine division of the LCBO. Nearly unique in the wine industry for their broad range of expertise covering wines, spirits, and beer from scores of countries both Old World and New, Product Consultants undergo perhaps the most rigorous tasting regiment of any retail beverage alcohol staff worldwide, tasting upwards of 150 new products (or new vintages of products) every fortnight.
Most Product Consultants are also involved in other wine related activities, ranging from teaching wine education courses - an integral part of their job - to serving on the VQA panel, to writing books.
The highest concentration of Product Consultants at any one location is at the LCBO flagship Summerhill store, which is host to nine Product Consultants, headed up by Stewart Bailey and Igor Ryjenkov, MW, as well as three assistants.
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