Katherine McEachnie

Katherine McEachnie is an energetic self-starter who has always remained positive, nurturing, determined, and kind through all the obstacles in her life. She has served on many leadership committees and advisory councils for different charities, and over the last fifteen years she and her husband Bill have helped raise millions of dollars for organizations involved in diabetes research, cancer research, children with disabilities, hospital programs, animal rescue, women’s resource centres, and more.

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Katherine is a Master in Champagne, a French Wine Scholar, a Certified Specialist of Wine, a Viticulture technician, and a Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Diploma graduate.  She owns Winston Estate Vineyard on the Naramata Bench in the Okanagan, British Columbia, which was voted the best wine region in the world in 2019. For the last ten years, she has served as a champagne specialist judge with the International Wine and Spirits Competition in London, UK. She also judges wine for the Okanagan Wine Festival “Best of Varietal” Competition. She is a wine consultant, wine educator, wine writer, and proud ambassador for BC wine. She is also a Canadian leader with Rodan + Fields, proudly representing the top skin care brand in North America.