Mireille Sauvé is one of Canada’s most acclaimed Wine Professionals.

A 17-year veteran of the wine and restaurant industries, Mireille graduated with honours from George Brown College’s Sommelier Program, earning her the title of ‘Canada’s Youngest Female Sommelier’ in August of 1997. After receiving her Sommelier Diploma, Mireille completed her second winery stage – a Winemaking Apprenticeship at Hedges Cellars in Washington State, USA.

Upon returning to Canada and earning multiple gold medals for her restaurant wine programs, Ms. Sauvé branched off in 1999 to develop a series of wine training seminars for restaurants which took her across the country teaching servers to work with wine. Mireille then further developed her industry knowledge by establishing Western Canada’s first Australian Wine Bureau in Vancouver in 2003, growing the Australian wine category to remain strong as the top selling import in all four western provinces.

Mireille has always enjoyed writing as a second passion to wine and was delighted at the opportunity to combine these two interests in the position of Wine Editor for Flavours Magazine in September of 2004. Now a freelance wine writer and editor in Canada and the USA, Mireille enjoys keeping continued ‘fingers’ in many ‘wine pies’, so to speak.

Throughout her career Sauvé has worked very closely with restaurants, wine agencies, liquor boards and wine stores throughout her career and is now the President of The Wine Umbrella – raising the bar in Western Canada’s wine industry.

What the critics say about Mireille Sauvé...

"Mireille Sauvé is one of Canada’s leading sommeliers..."
- Flavours Magazine, 2005

"... Grape Guru Mireille Sauvé..."
- The Georgia Straight, 2002

"Word of her arrival is already bringing new business in."
- Patron Magazine, 1999

"Mireille Sauvé is one of the top wine connoisseurs on the West Coast..."
- Flare Magazine, 1998