The 40th Vancouver International Wine Festival returns to its regular late February dates in 2018 and officials have announced Spain and Portugal will be the theme countries. That gives us a year to get to Spain and Portugal and to update our stories
Not long after the province of South Australia was proclaimed in 1836, the colony’s first Surveyor General, Colonel William Light, came upon a fertile valley just northeast of Adelaide. Light gave the Barossa Ranges its name in memory of the British
The wine world is in Dusseldorf, Germany this week at ProWein 2017 and our Treve Ring is prowling tasting rooms, and the fizz bar no doubt, gathering intel on the latest juice from around the globe. Back home we are pumping out the reviews and stories
Snow continues to dog Vancouver as most residents long for some liquid sunshine, better known as snow removal. There’s always red wine and there will be plenty of it when the 39th Vancouver International Wine Festival opens next weekend with
I admit I’m a bit late to the Pier Luigi Tolaini wine party. Louie, as he was recently introduced to me, lives in Winnipeg, at least part of the year. The rest of the time he is Pier Luigi, the owner of Tenuta Tolaini in Chianti Classico, just outside
Ten days into the new year and we are moving quickly at GOW. There are plenty of new notes to start the year and check out our Top Ten list which changes every Thursday. Today we have posted a ‘People’ story on Canadian Pier Luigi Tolaini
And so it begins, 2017 is upon us at Gismondi on Wine and we are excited to get the bottles rolling. You can expect a lot more from us this year as we implement a slightly more rigid publication schedule to chronicle all our adventures and wine tastings.
Merry Christmas everyone from all of us at Gismondi on Wine. Like the big fat man with the long white beard we have been very busy this month with stops in Italy, Chile, Argentina, England and France along with the release of hundreds of tasting notes
We wrap our sparkling wine coverage today with the GOW Champagne Annual 2017, a listing of our favourites grown in the chalky appellation. Over the next two weeks we will continue to publish a number of tasting notes in time for the Holidays and we will
There is little doubt that the cabernet sauvignon grape is responsible for some of the biggest (tannic) wines on the planet. Certainly the physical nature of cabernet tends to be big, angular and tannic in its youth and, while it mellows with age, even
There’s no shortage of unnecessary wine gifts out there. You know, the kind that end up in a drawer or on a shelf after a single use, never to be taken out again. Sticking to the basics like glasses, decanters, books and special bottles
There is plenty to be done this month, beginning with two huge tastings involving sparkling wine and Champagne. You can expect two full reports by early December that will involve over 100 sparkling wines from around the world. In the meantime, Treve
It’s that time of the year when hope springs eternal inside wineries. The 2016 harvest is well underway thanks to another early spring and a mostly warm growing season, especially in the Okanagan Valley. There is no way to know how it will
First time pinot noir drinkers usually succumb to its silky, juicy fruit while veteran swillers simply admire the concentration and depth of flavour that springs from this mysterious red, as fickle as the wind. But ever since we met would-be novelist
It’s become fashionable to bash wine reviews and reviewers in favour of more ‘reliable’ opinions, like friends you trust on social media. We too love all the social mediums but we also bring extensive travel, thousands of on-site visits,
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