Jenny Newell grew up moving around a lot! Born in Edmonton, moved to Germany, then back to Alberta, followed by Ontario before settling for awhile in BC. For high school she lived in Abbotsford, then Vancouver, then France, then Victoria, then Pender Island.
As a British citizen, the EU opened doors for Jenny and she went back to France for University, before coming back to Canada and going to the University of Victoria.
As a student at UVic Jenny had a job downtown Victoria at Swan's Hotel and Brewpub in the Wine Shoppe. She went to all the educational tastings she possibly could and became passionate about BC wine; a burgeoning category at that time.
She pursued a job as a wine, spirits and beer sales representative and began selling to retailers, restaurants and the BCLDB. Jenny's husband Rainer was a competing sales representative and they enjoyed working up and down Vancouver Island together.
They stayed in Victoria for a few years before deciding it would be fun to move to Vancouver and work in that larger market. They loved living there but an opportunity to move to the Okanagan, the heart of wine country, came to Jenny and Rainer. They were offered the BC Interior territory for Gray Monk wines. They had both worked for Gray Monk at different times and this offer was allowing them to work together.
Jenny and Rainer moved to Kelowna in January of 2004 and worked for the Heiss family at Gray Monk until they sold to Andrew Peller Limited in 2017. They stayed on for a transitional year and left Gray Monk in 2018.
Jenny considers herself so lucky to be able to find exciting new companies to work with since. She is so thrilled to represent Okanagan Spirits Craft Distillery and Okanagan Crush Pad wines; both at the forefront of their respective categories for innovation and quality.
You can connect with Jenny and Rainer at Buy The Bottle
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