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\"\"<\/strong>Kurtis Kolt<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Kurtis Kolt is a Vancouver-based wine consultant who writes about wine, presents seminars, hosts events, judges wine competitions, works with restaurants on their wine programs, and so on.<\/p>\n

Managing restaurants and winning multiple awards for his wine lists until 2010 when he received the ‘Sommelier of the Year’ award from both the 2010 Vancouver International Wine Festival and Vancouver <\/em>magazine, Kolt opted to diversify his focus on wine through different arenas.<\/p>\n

Vancouver<\/em> magazine became one of his many writing outlets, which have come to include Decanter<\/em> and Maclean\u2019s<\/em> magazines, AskMen.com<\/em>, and SIP Northwest<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Appearances have included running wine service at James Beard House in New York, a city where he occasionally participates in tasting panels at Wine & Spirits<\/em> magazine, and a profile in Wine Enthusiast<\/em> magazine. His various certifications and credits include London’s Wine & Spirit Education Trust, the Court of Master Sommeliers & the Winemaking Program at UC Davis. In recent years, Kolt also co-founded and runs \u2018Top Drop\u2019 in both Vancouver and Calgary, a terroir-focused trade and consumer wine festival Western Living<\/em> magazine has dubbed, \u201cThe one wine tasting of the year you shouldn\u2019t miss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twitter: @KurtisKolt
\nInstagram: @KurtisKolt<\/p>\n

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