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,
Last year I caught up with Lake Breeze winemaker Garron Elmes in a Vancouver Sun BC Winegrowers video where we covered a number of topics regarding the Naramata Bench winery. In view of the recent Lake Breeze performance at the WineAlign National Wine
I’ve come to learn that websites are a lot like boats. Expensive to buy and even more expensive to maintain. We finally have our media section in place, thank you Mark Taylor at MTCS and the design team at Tool Box Design it looks great. We look
The first big long weekend of the year is in sight and we are busy travelling and tasting. Treve is back in London for ‘Raw Wine’ a two-day celebration featuring over 150 growers and one of the most exciting collections of fine, natural, organic
Our first 2016 report from the Okanagan Valley is nothing but good news. All across the South Okanagan and Similkameen Valley bud burst is underway. The unfurling of the leaves signals the start of the growing season, one that now looks as if it will
Coming off a successful wine festival where numerous Italian grape varieties and the many regions where they grow were in the spotlight, it’s becoming painfully obvious it is time to move to another level in British Columbia as we regulate our wines
The change to Daylight Savings Time signals a fast approaching spring in Vancouver. We will be ramping up our warm weather wine reviews as the week’s advance as well as reporting on recent rips to Argentina, Uruguay and ProWein. This year as the
Jean-Claude Mas was born in a winemaking environment in the Languedoc, in Pézenas. At the age of three, during the harvest, he escaped from his mother and ran 2.5 kilometres to meet his grandfather in the cellar. It was a moment never forgotten
Happy New Year from all of us at Gismondi On Wine. Our new site has been a beast to tame but with 24,000 notes and nearly 2000 articles we knew it would take time to get everything in order. It’s all falling into place now and we promise even more
There’s only one wine that matters in the premium wine business and that is a wine of place. After a spring and summer of study, a B.C. wine industry task force wound up its investigations by proposing sweeping changes to British Columbia’s
It’s officially panic time. With less than two weeks to go to Christmas we are in high gear tasting all manner of wine. Last week it was Champagne, today it is sparkling wine and just in case you need any more bubble information, Treve is winging
The holiday countdown is on but there are still places to go and people to see. Treve is off to Franciacorta this week to continue her global sparkling wine journey - and speaking of sparkling, we're gearing up for our annual GOW champagne tasting in
In the second of six videos that make up the 2015 BC Winegrowers Series, I visit The Hatch, a new, unique winery project in the Okanagan. GM Jessie Harnden and winemaker Jason Parkes have hatched a series of single-vineyard wines from across the Okanagan
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