Okanagan-born Judith Lane is an independent Vancouver-based wine and food writer and regular contributor to the Georgia Straight, Taste Magazine, Flavours, and Gremolata.com, and has penned articles galore for CityFood, Vines, BC Restaurant News, Booming, VLM, Wine Adventure, Wine Access, in flight magazines, and an assortment of websites to name a few. She’ll go anywhere including Sicily, Spain, France, Germany, Morocco, Chile, Oregon, and pretty Pender Island for a good story and a glass of wine. Lane judges wine awards, wine list competitions, wine and food-pairing events, and cocktail competitions.