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
In the first of six videos that makeup the 2015 BC Winegrowers Series, I visit George and Trudy Heiss, the founders of Gray Monk Estate Winery and modern BC wine pioneers. After giving up their hair-dressing business in Edmonton in 1972, they purchased
A quick visit in and out of the northern Okanagan Valley this weekend revealed three interesting notes. Visitor numbers are up 20 to 30 percent at wineries this summer as tourists flocked to wine country. The 2015 harvest is now well along the timeline
Earlier this summer I filmed a six part BC winegrowers series in the Okanagan Valley for the The Vancouver Sun. BC Winegrowers takes viewers on a ride while we visit with six wineries in this travelogue of one of North America’s premium wine regions,
At the age of ten, some 80 kilometers southwest of Pézenas, Gérard Bertrand’s father, Georges Bertrand, invited his son to work the harvest in his cellars at Domaine de Villemajou at Boutenac in Corbières in the Aude. The idea
How many times can you write about a competition? I ask myself this loaded question as I pore over the results of the 2015 WineAlign National Wine Awards. Now fifteen years after David Lawrason and I began the awards, it would appear the
It's done, it's out and it's ready to use. The WineAlign National Wine Awards of Canada are out and British Columbia wineries have done very well. I’m always amazed at the attention domestic wineries afford foreign accolades and medals given
A quick week of filming in the Okanagan on behalf of the Vancouver Sun revealed a mostly healthy crop load across the valley all some ten days to three weeks ahead of normal. With veraison a mere week or two off, smoke could be an issue with an otherwise
A case-full of years have passed since Allen Shoup launched a highly ambitious Walla Walla project designed to catch the wine world’s imagination. Preposterous is one way to describe the idea: seven acclaimed winemakers, who didn’t need any
Canada Day is upon us and as we reflect on our 148th birthday, it only seems fair we reflect on the current state of the British Columbia and Canadian wine industry. While the modern birth of local wine came only seven years after the first official
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