Honouring a well loved man,

This is a small article i found on my deceased great uncle. it was not written by me, it was just copied from an archive, in the interest of preserving any writings on the amazing man, that was my great uncle.

(From The Montreal Gazette July,25,1984)
Maurice Chenier, publisher of Wine and Dine magazine and a former wine columnist for The Gazette, became a wine expert because of his wife's cooking, he said in an interview.
She was women`s editor of the B.C. paper where they both worked in the 1960's and was determined that no recipe would be published without her personally testing it. Many of the recipes were international in origin, and Chenier, getting into the spirit of things, tried to keep up by providing appropriate wines as accompaniment. They eventually became so interested in international wining and dining that they retired from serious work and traveled for six years, circling the globe 2 1/2 times, before settling in Montreal to resume ordinary living.

Chenier became an editor at The Gazette in 1967 and, from 1977 to 1979 also wrote the wine column. He abandoned full-time newspaper journalism in 1979 to "become a struggling publisher" of Wine and Dine magazine. He also works as a freelance wine expert, writing articles for other publications, contributing to television shows, giving wine courses, and acting as a consultant for the Quebec Liquor Corp.
In September, he plans to launch a French-language wine review which will be distributed in QLC outlets.
He estimates he tastes "more than 1,000 different wines every year" and ruefully concedes that it shows in his "more than 200 pounds"

Yet, he adds, " Wine is not the major problem. I have a personal rule of never drinking more than a half bottle a day. The food side is more dangerous for me. I love to eat."
On the credit side, he says the people he meets are "the major perk. People interested in fine wines are food are usually interested in fine cars,music, history. they have a joie de vivre"