About Us

Vintage Trade Mission

Vintage Trade is a small yet passionate team of wine professionals who meet the highest service standards. Vintage Trade represents well researched boutique wines that offer value, winemaking excellence, and exceptional vineyard quality and management. Vintage Trade has been working with the liquor board, private consumers and the hospitality industry for over 10 years. Offering exclusive wines from exceptionally dedicated vintners and actively traveling to seek new “gems” is something in which Vintage Trade takes pride.

What is important to us

• In most cases, we have met and come to know the winemakers and the families that own the vineyards.
• We turn down many more wineries than we represent.
• For regions not yet represented, we are looking carefully. For example, we’re not signing someone just so we can say we have Italian wine.

Profiles

David Thompson, owner of Vintage Trade

Some people say I have the ‘best job in the world.”  In some ways, that may be true, but keeping wines available and working through the LCBO provide great challenges.  After 10 years of operating my agency, I’ve finally begun to work out the kinks.  The ‘best’ part of my job is finding interesting, and often, unique wines that deliver more than you expect.  Your feedback is always welcome.  david@vintagetrade.com

Cheryl

I started working at TVT in 2003 as a part-time bookkeeper. As the business and my interest in wine grew, I became office manager of the company in 2007. I have learned so much about wine being involved in this company. I enjoy the people I work with and the business community that we serve. I look forward to watching the company grow as we experience new and interesting wines added to our portfolio.

Alex Hamilton

With experiences in the food and wine industry ranging from restaurant sommelier to cellar hand Alexander Hamilton has dedicated his career to all things oenophilist and gastronomic. His passion for wine began to cultivate in Stratford Ontario working seasonally in the restaurant industry and then developed further during his time at the University of Guelph, in the Schools Hotel And Food Administration program. Becoming a certified Sommelier, continuing education by traveling to grape growing destinations, and enlightening people of the wonders of local Ontario wines are a few aspects that Alexander utilities in his work at Vintage Trade, while building solid relationships with clients.

Aaron Shaw

Aaron has worked as winemaker in Cahors, France and the Barossa Valley in Australia. He is currently a professor for the Sommelier program at Algonquin College in Ottawa. In 2007, he won the Tony Aspler award for ”Ontario’s Best Professional Blind Taster.” He has worked with Vintage Trade for 7 years.

For order enquiries: please contact Cheryl Edgecombe, cheryl@vintagetrade.com or call 1866 390-8745

For sales enquiries in the following areas:

Toronto, please contact Alex Hamilton, alex@vintagetrade.com or call 647 885-0712
Ottawa, please contact Aaron Shaw, aaron@vintagetrade.com or call 613 614-6293
West of Toronto, including Kitchener, Waterloo, please contact Janey Reilly, janey@vintagetrade.com, or call 289 983-6464

To reach David Thompson, david@vintagetrade.com or call 289 242-1496