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Week in Review
Monday, December 8 2025
12 · 08Season's Greetings from all of us at Gismondi on Wine
As the year winds down, we continue to taste and rate wines much as we have online since 1991. Of particular interest this month are our extensive notes on all the sparkling wines we tasted this year and Champagne Master Treve Ring's annual report on Champagne. Allison has come up with some favourite Canadian discoveries this year, as well as some returning favourites from Europe. We have several Holiday Wine guides ready to help you complete your shopping in record time.
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When Only B.C. Bubbles Will DoIn a world where Champagne has long dominated the sparkling wine pyramid, the tide is turning as more and more producers around the...
BC Food and Wine RadioBC Food and Wine Radio launched on September 6, 1997, as The Best of Food and Wine with Tony and Kasey Wilson in the CFUN studios on West...
Mission Hill 2025 National Wine Awards of Canada Winery of the YearThe Okanagan hilltop winery with the stunning vistas has returned to the top of the heap once again at the 2025 WineAlign National...
2025 WineAlign National Wine AwardsAfter posting 20 consecutive years of growth, the sparkling wine category took a step back in 2023 and 2024 in the US and Canada. However,...
The Wine Align National Wine Awards of CanadaThis year, the National Wine Awards of Canada celebrates a quarter-century of our once-a-year snapshot of Canadian wines. As the...
From Disaster to Short Term ReplacementsThis month, the GOW tasting team offers an early look at some of the replacement, or Crafted in British Columbia wines, made in response...
Contributors
From the TreveHouseby: Treve Ring
Champagne Annual 2025 - 2026
After a couple of challenging vintages, the Champenois sighed in collective relief with harvest 2025. Not only was it the earliest harvest ever recorded, quality has been reported as excellent, and healthy. Growers had barely made it back from summer holidays when harvest began in some villages on August 20, the exact date that the Comité Champagne (CIVC) announced picking can commence...Read More ...
Cheese Pleaseby: Allison Spurrell
Allison Explores New Canadian Cheese Favourites
The holiday season has arrived, and hopefully, everyone gets a few days to relax and enjoy some time with friends and family. I know by the time the big day comes, there will be lots of cheese being consumed all across the country, and all the cheese mongers will be curled up recovering from the marathon called December. It’s a fun time for us, but there is a lot of cheese weightlifting involved, and a lot of early mornings...Read More ...
by: HJ Cha
Pere Ventura: A Legacy Reimagined
For decades, Cava was better known for its accessibility, a sparkling wine appreciated for its affordability rather than its sense of place, despite being made in the same traditional method as Champagne. In recent years, however, the Cava DO has become one of the most dynamic names in the sparkling wine world, driven by efforts to reclaim its distinct identity, strengthen transparency, and elevate quality and sustainability while remaining grounded in tradition...Read More ...
