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Week in Review
Monday, December 23 2024
12 · 23Thanks For Your Support
As we approach the end of 2024, we want to take a moment to express our deepest gratitude for your support, engagement, and loyalty. Your feedback and interactions have helped us grow and improve, and we are truly grateful for your continued trust. Gismondi on Wine has been around since the early 1990s and we have never taken your support for granted. As tumultuous as the wine business has become and the challenges it presents for the media covering it, we have stayed the course. Our daily wine reviews remain a core feature that producers and our legions of followers trust and use confidently, fulfilling our main goal. Thank you from all of us at GOW for visiting our website, sharing your thoughts, and being a part of our community. We wish you and your loved ones a joyful holiday season and a prosperous 2025.
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Contributors
From the TreveHouseby: Treve Ring
Our 2025 Annual Report on Champagne
On the heels of the botrytis blighted 2023 vintage in Champagne, 2024 has been particularly challenging. First and ever foremost, the weather. Wet. When I visited the region in January / February, it had been raining every single day since October 2023. An average year sees 750mm rainfall in Champagne. From October 2023 to October 2024, cumulative rainfall reached 1250 mm, making working the vines messy and complicated at best...Read More ...
Cheese Pleaseby: Allison Spurrell
Christmas Gifts from Allison
The holiday season is fast approaching. Every year, the time between October and December seems shorter and shorter. When I was younger, I always tried to finish all my Christmas shopping by August. It’s not because I was so organized. It’s just because the thought of shopping in December, when we were so busy in the stores, made me almost weep. I am not a dedicated shopper. The older I get, the less my friends or family need...Read More ...
by: HJ Cha
Rías Baixas Food Pairing Guide
Rías Baixas wines from Galicia are synonymous with high-quality albariño, a dry, light to medium-bodied white celebrated for its crisp acidity, citrus blossom aromas, white peach, and pithy phenolics. This combination of naturally high acidity and textured phenolics strengthens the wine's structure, making it highly versatile for a variety of food pairings. What sets Rías Baixas albariño apart from other slightly pithy, high-acid whites, like riesling, grüner veltliner, and chenin blanc, is its distinct salinity...Read More ...
