About Us

Who are we?

Grape by Grape wines is a wine import agency based in Vancouver BC.

Fernando Fontan oversees the selection of the wines.

He has a diverse background and wealth of  experience in the wine industry, including winemaking, wine chemestry, viticulture, sales and quality control.

From a classic and technical approach in the wine world, he has developed a taste for natural, minimal intervention wines, small producers, unique vineyards and winemakers.

What can you find in this portfolio?

Winemaker wines, personal interpretation of grapes, places and ways of understanding viticulture and winemaking, isolated vineyards, old vines, respect for the environment, ways of live, philosophy, art, emotions, or just honest wines, depends on how deep you dig.

Producers, (the artisans.)

Joan Ramon and Carmen,  Celler Escoda-Sanahuja from Conca de Barbera region. Their  wines reflect the hard work they put to create complex and expressive wines with no additives, are classic rock school,  just grapes, just wine!!

Manel Avinyo’s, Clos Lentiscus from the Massis del Garraf region is under Penedes DO. The wines are hardcore biodynamics. Nervy wines, heavy metal; horns included. Bubbles are everywhere in their portfolio because life is to celebrate…

Jot Camps, Masia de la Roqua, from Massis del Garraf are a young couple doing youthful and crispy wines! Massis del Garraf for everyone!,The pop music of natural wines!

Mariano Taberner, Bodega Cueva in Requena. The wines are delicacy in a bottle; floral, fruity and. Is there a romantic balad playing? They may bring a tear to your eye.

Isabel Galindo, Las Moradas de San Martin, Madrid, A brilliant  winemaker whose deep knowledge of viticulture leads to make her capable of reproducing a landscape inside a bottle. Classic music in your ears. The clarity of the wines are a Madrid sky on the palate.

Ruben Diaz, Vinadores de Gredos, Gredos. Old school winemaking and wine is back!  A resurrection in his old ways, methods and vines brought from centuries ago blended with new knowledge and experiences. Is it indie? No matter. The wine is damn good!

French rock star Remi Synadinos. At Domaine des Sarradels in Roussillon this former sommelier injects fresh blood into south-of-France classics. Grown on an incredible landscape, the wines are clean, elegant, fresh and honest.To taste is to believe.