I’m Peter Van de Reep, a Vancouver BC based sommelier and hospitality professional, currently opening bottles at L’Abattoir in historic Gastown.

With a career spanning over 20 years in hospitality, I am a leader in the wine and beverage community in British Columbia. I won the 2020 Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers BC Sommelier of the Year competition and passed the Court of Master Sommeliers Advanced Certification in 2024 and I am pursuing the Master Sommelier Diploma (one unsuccessful attempt so far!).

I hold a B.Sc. in Geological Sciences from the University of British Columbia. I competed at the 2021 and 2023 Best Sommelier of Canada, was a finalist in the 2022 Guild of Sommeliers Online Wine Competition and was awarded Premier Crew for outstanding Front of House professionals at the 2023 Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards. When not working the restaurant floor I can often be found curled up with a good book (probably about wine) or listening to a new record, with a glass of grower Champagne or riesling with an amaro to follow.

I believe there is a beverage out there for everyone, whether it is a bottle of Kabinett Riesling, a barrel aged sour beer from Vancouver, an herbal amaro from the Marche, a beautifully complex sheng pu-erh from Yunnan, China or a microlot coffee from Yirgachefe in Ethiopia. My passion is searching for these delicious things and serving them.

I have been luck to have my work and projects published or featured in the Michelin Guide, Wine & Spirits Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Canada’s 100 Best, Vancouver Magazine, Western Living, the Vancouver Sun, Scout Magazine, the Georgia Straight, Ricardo Magazine, Montecristo among others.