Michelle's call-ins to the winery are a daily treat. "HELLO!!" you hear, over the white noise of her cell phone. If you're lucky you'll get, along with a wine order for one of her customers, a lively critique of the weather, traffic conditions, other drivers and her after-hours plans.

Nine years in the wine business, Michelle served an international wine importer and a major Canadian wine and spirits distributor before joining Malivoire in 2004. Today she shoulders a huge and demanding sales region covering restaurants across the Greater Toronto Area.

Michelle believes in enjoyment of all activities, including calls to the office. She takes family, friends, food, music, her dog "Taxi" and the wide outdoors as things to be savoured with equal zeal. Her work, she says, is an opportunity to enjoy the company of great people while taking great wine to great destinations. Who could say better than that?