Just like his father, Maurizio Terrigno entered the restaurant business at an early age. He helped his parents to develop Renato's dining experience as a busboy at the age fourteen. His dedication to helping his mother and father to develop a successful business led him to pursue the artistry of the sommelier. Winning a scholarship, he began his journey by studying wine in Italy at the early age of eighteen. There, he developed his pallet and acquired a fine taste for extraordinary wine. Ordering wines that are unknown in Canada, Maurizio has helped brand some of the most popular wines now found in Western Canada and is herald for his consultancy in preparing wine collections and wine lists.

Rigorously studying as an aficionado of the savoir of the Italian wines, Maurizio visits Italy each fall to purchase the most exceptional and rarest wines each Italian regions has to offer. Selecting from the "Super Tuscans", Barolos, and Nebbiolos, his business experience and admiration for fine wine helped to create one of North America's rarest wine cellars at the Osteria. With over 2,000 bottles of distinguished wine kept in a state-of-the-art wine cellar, which he designed, Maurizio's collection of wines will ensure that your dining experience is memorable.