Rhône Experience
SOPEXA presents wines from the Rhone Valley. Edmonton, AB. More details and RSVP are coming soon!
Whiskey / American Spirits Tour VANCOUVER
Get ready for THE whiskey experience of 2024 on November 7, 2024, from 1-4 PM at the KENT 534 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC, V6B 2N7. This is your exclusive chance to be among the first to taste and explore American Whiskey brands that have never been available in British Columbia before!
Join us for an intimate, one-on-one opportunity to meet the visionary distillers from the USA. Discover the stories behind these exceptional spirits, sample their unique offerings, and connect directly with importers looking to introduce these groundbreaking brands to the BC market. Click here to RSVP
A Tasting of Wine from Italy -Vancouver
Welcome to “Extraordinary Italian Wine”, your gateway to the finest Italian wines.
Tues, Oct 28th in Vancouver at The Terminal City Club from 1:30-4pm. Click here to RSVP
This isn’t just another wine event—it’s a curated experience designed to foster meaningful connections between Italian wine producers and discerning Canadian buyers.
This platform is powered by the Italian Trade Commission (ICE), the government-backed institution committed to elevating Italian companies on the international stage. Working in tandem with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, we offer an array of services to Italian and foreign enterprises.
Our headquarters is in Rome, but our influence spans the globe through a comprehensive network of offices aligned with Italian embassies and consulates. In Canada, you’ll find us making waves in Toronto, Montréal, and Vancouver.
To discover more about ICE and our global initiatives, feel free to visit our official website www.ice.it, available in Italian and English.
This year marks the 28th edition of our flagship event, “A Tasting of Wines from Italy TM / Une Dégustation de Vins d’Italie MC” in Toronto and Montreal, and the 17th edition in Calgary and Vancouver.
A Tasting of Wine from Italy - Calgary
Welcome to “Extraordinary Italian Wine”, your gateway to the finest Italian wines.
Tues, Oct 28th in Vancouver at The Terminal City Club from 1:30-4pm. Click here to RSVP
This isn’t just another wine event—it’s a curated experience designed to foster meaningful connections between Italian wine producers and discerning Canadian buyers.
This platform is powered by the Italian Trade Commission (ICE), the government-backed institution committed to elevating Italian companies on the international stage. Working in tandem with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, we offer an array of services to Italian and foreign enterprises.
Our headquarters is in Rome, but our influence spans the globe through a comprehensive network of offices aligned with Italian embassies and consulates. In Canada, you’ll find us making waves in Toronto, Montréal, and Vancouver.
To discover more about ICE and our global initiatives, feel free to visit our official website www.ice.it, available in Italian and English.
This year marks the 28th edition of our flagship event, “A Tasting of Wines from Italy TM / Une Dégustation de Vins d’Italie MC” in Toronto and Montreal, and the 17th edition in Calgary and Vancouver.
IVSA Buyers' Salon EDMONTON
EDMONTON. Import Liquor Tradeshow: Walkaround Tasting Click here to RSVP
IVSA Buyers' Salon CANMORE
CANMORE, AB. Import Liquor Tradeshow: Walkaround Tasting + Product Seminar. Click here to RSVP
IVSA Buyers' Salon VANCOUVER
VANCOUVER. Import Liquor Tradeshow: Walkaround Tasting + ABLE BC Townhall. Click here to RSVP
Wine Australia- Trade Seminar
Wine Australia.
Trade Tasting Vancouver.
Location + RSVP coming soon
Chablis Takeover - Edmonton
SAVE THE DATE for Edmonton Sept 17th, 2024
RSVP and details coming soon
IVSA Buyers' Salon KELOWNA
KELOWNA. Import Liquor Tradeshow: Walkaround Tasting + ABLE BC Townhall. Click here to RSVP
Chablis Takeover - Vancouver
SAVE THE DATE for Vancouver on Sept 16th, 2024
RSVP and details coming soon
IVSA Buyers' Salon VICTORIA
VICTORIA. Import Liquor Tradeshow: Walkaround Tasting + ABLE BC Townhall. Click here to RSVP
Italian Day on Commercial Drive
Authentic Italian Table - on the Drive in Grandview Park
Italian Days on Commercial Drive
Vinho Verde - Grand Tasting in Calgary
Vinho Verde - Grand Tasting in Calgary
The Hemingway Room
1204 20th Ave SE, Calgary AB
TOP DROP: Vancouver + Calgary
Providing a platform for terroir-influenced, handcrafted wines, and the people behind them. We believe in the importance in farming one’s own fruit and/or being constantly engaged with grape-growers to ensure sustainability and a high standard of viticultural practices. We believe in wines that reflect their vintage, and wines that aren’t suffocated by vinicultural trickery. We believe in winemaking decisions that are made by a winemaker, and not by a board of directors or marketing team. We believe in those who take chances. We believe these kinds of wines, honest wines of integrity, need a time and place to have their story told.
This is why we created Top Drop.
Tre Bicchieri World Tour: Vancouver
Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri wine tasting event - Vancouver, Hotel Sutton Place Friday May 3rd 2024
Click here for RSVP + details: www.gamberorossointernational.com/tours/vancouver-2023-05-03/
The event is hosted at the Hotel Sutton Place and will feature a great selection of Top Italian Wines, all awarded with the highest rating from Gambero Rosso Italian annual Wine guidebook. Our event is in collaboration with the Italian Consulate in Vancouver and with the Italian Chamber of Commerce in West Canada.
CANMORE Liquor Trade: Buyer’s Salon
Liquor Industry Trade Only: RSVP to attend admin@ivsa.ca
Tues, April 30th
Liquor Agents showcase Imported Wine, Beer, Spirits, Refreshment Beverages to Trade Buyers.
Vancouver Liquor Trade: Buyer’s Salon
Liquor Industry Trade Only: RSVP to attend admin@ivsa.ca
Liquor Agents showcase Imported Wine, Beer, Spirits, Refreshment Beverages to Trade Buyers.
Vins de Loire - Sommeliers Tasting in Vancouver
Vins de Loire - Sommeliers Tasting in Vancouver
Location + RSVP coming soon.
Kelowna Liquor Buyer’s Salon
Liquor Industry Trade Only: RSVP to attend admin@ivsa.ca
Liquor Agents showcase Imported Wine, Beer, Spirits, Refreshment Beverages to Trade Buyers.
Victoria Liquor Buyer’s Salon
Victoria: IVSA Buyer’s Salon
Wed, April 3rd, 2024 at The Marriott Inner Harbout
Bourgogne Wines Masterclass - Calgary
Masterclass presenting Bourgogne Wines
March 26th in Calgary.
Please send an email to nperez@sopexa.com
Bourgogne is renowned worldwide for producing some of the finest wines with its unique terroir and savoir-faire of generations of winemakers. However, it also offers plenty of unknown gems yet to be discovered, and all at an affordable price range for Canadian customers.
With only 30 seats available, Sommelier Kler-Yann Bouteiller will guide participants through a range of wines offering a comprehensive look at what Bourgogne has to offer and why the region is ideally positioned for the Canadian market.
Bourgogne Wines Masterclass Vancouver
Masterclass presenting Bourgogne Wines
March 25th in Vancouver - SOLD OUT
Please send an email to nperez@sopexa.com
Bourgogne is renowned worldwide for producing some of the finest wines with its unique terroir and savoir-faire of generations of winemakers. However, it also offers plenty of unknown gems yet to be discovered, and all at an affordable price range for Canadian customers.
With only 30 seats available, Sommelier Kler-Yann Bouteiller will guide participants through a range of wines offering a comprehensive look at what Bourgogne has to offer and why the region is ideally positioned for the Canadian market.
Vancouver Cocktail Week
In its 3rd year, Vancouver Cocktail Week will be a toast to the art of the cocktail, and so much more. It will be a destination event that celebrates the vibrant culture of food and drink in a city that is a hub of cocktail creativity, its multi-award-winning bartenders ambassadors for all that makes this such an exciting culinary community. This event will give those talented bartenders the showcase they deserve—and serve up delicious fun for consumers, too.
Vancouver International Wine Festival
VanWineFest is Canada’s premier wine show and widely considered to be the best wine event in North America. With ~18,000 admissions and at 44 years of age, it is one of the biggest and oldest wine events in the world. Its slogan is “The Wine World is Here”. It has been voted the “#1 Food, Wine & Hospitality Event in Canada” for eight years running by New York’s BizBash. Trade Days, which runs February 28-March 1 in 2024, comprises ~10 of the festival’s ~36 events.
