Marquis Team
Ryan Hooper
Email: ryan@marquis-wines.com
Ryan Hooper is a large mammal, and is originally from Victoria, BC. Ryan moved to Vancouver on New Year's eve of 2008, in search of a better life and better wine. While unable to speak for the quality of his life, his goal of better wine has most certainly been achieved.
Ryan's goal to 'taste it all' is ongoing... he is currently taking WSET Level 3, and from what I hear, he's doing bang job at it too. His goal is to find you, the wine loving consumer, the best GVW possible, which is Ryan speak for great value wine. Currently Ryan is in charge of sourcing and buying the South American wines for the store, and once again, he's doing a terrific job at that too. A lot great wines are coming out of Chile and Argentina, and when they do, Ryan is all over them (literally and metaphorically).
Outside of wine, Ryan is fond of fonts (Trajan being his current favourite), he enjoys breathing in and out and full-contact origami. Ryan's star sign is Libra, year of the Horse.