About Cellar Dweller

Cellar Dweller Filter Services is a mobile crossflow filter company based in Okanagan Falls, BC. The key technology that we offer our customers is a Pall OenoflowTM wine filtration system. We rent this system to local wineries on either a time or by the litre basis. This system saves money for our customers both by reducing the amount of wine loss that occurs during filtration, and reducing the amount of time it takes to filter. Use our Savings Calculator to estimate what your wineries savings would be.

Cellar Dweller is owned and operated by Lesia Wood. Lesia saw the market need for a high quality, local, mobile wine crossflow filtration company, and after reviewing the various crossflow systems available, selected the Pall OenoflowTM system for rental in the Okanagan Valley. The three largest wineries in the Okanagan all use the Pall Oenoflow systems in their operations.

About Lesia Wood

Lesia was born and raised in Cardinal, Ontario (Eastern Ontario). In the early ‘80’s, she attended Queens University in Kingston, Ontario and obtained her B.A.. Until 2006, she resided with her family in Brockville, Ontario. In 2006, Lesia’s husband, Robert Kwakernaak, a 25 year veteran with Pall Corporation was transferred to Western Canada to represent Pall Corporation for the Food and Beverage market.

After looking at several locations in BC and Alberta, Lesia, Robert, and their son Eric Kwakernaak fell in love with the Okanagan Valley, its wonderful scenery and temperate 4 season weather, and of course, its wineries. Both Robert and Eric are both avid athletes, and take full advantage of the local mountain biking trails, Apex ski hill, and Skaha Lake. Eric is an enthusiastic hockey player for the Jr. Vees in the Penticton Minor Hockey Association. Lesia and Robert also billet two athletes attending Okanagan Hockey School.