As Stuart, Treve and I power through the past few weeks of submissions, we’ll also be posting notes from our recent travels and visits. I’ve just returned from the Okanagan and can assure that vintage 2015 is on par thus far – watch
The first of the local 2014 wines are hitting our tasting bench – a sure sign of spring. I’ve just returned from the Okanagan Wine Leaders Forum in Naramata at the Sandy Beach Lodge – a great meeting of wine minds from here and abroad
After a long battle with cancer our friend Jurgen Gothe died last week. He was the original BC wine guy, and his absence leaves a gap that will never be filled. He leaves behind a long trail of work in wine, food and music, first sharing our media space
It’s the first day of British Columbia’s new liquor landscape and retailers of all stripes are preparing to sell beer, wine and spirits in one of the most bizarre liquor markets on the continent. A new wholesale tax, part of government’s
A number of unrelated topics comprise this week’s column although it doesn’t take much to connect the dots to see just how inter-related the business of wine is unless you are in government. There will be a new pricing landscape in British
It’s the first day of spring, but we’ve been spring cleaning for the past week, clearing out a cache of wine reviews and making room for the new releases that start popping up like tulips at this time of year. Expect to see many fresh white
March 8, 2015. We’re still busy testing the new site and working on the back end, behind the scenes. We expect to have full access later this week so we can start posting the cache of reviews Stuart, Treve and I have filed from the last month. We
Thanks for all the kind words regarding our new design and re-launch. There is much to be done to get where we need to be but it was important to us to be up and running for the Vancouver International Wine Festival last week. In the coming days we will
Of course we chose the busiest wine week of the year in Vancouver to launch the new version of Gismondi on Wine. We figured it was fitting timing, with tens of thousands of additional wine bottles and wine lovers floating around the city. We are rolling
If you haven't yet heard, grocery stores will be selling wine beginning April Fool's Day, and given the way government has handled the entire affair officials couldn't have picked a more meaningful day to launch the initiative. I won't bore you with
Don’t adjust your calendar; it’s Valentine’s Day. If you forgot to make that dinner reservation on what is now the second busiest night of the year for restaurants, chances are you won’t find one at this late date. But there is
“Oculus is the fulfillment of years of relentless toil to realize a Bordeaux-style wine that could stand next to the best anywhere. We took desert land, great chances and bold investment, including bringing aboard world-renowned Bordeaux winemaking
That was a quick January and there is less than a month to the start of North America's longest running wine festival. Tickets to the Vancouver International Wine Festival are going fast and many seminars and dinners have already sold out, so don't delay.Trade
Australia is the world’s sixth largest wine producer and the fourth largest wine exporter. Sparkling wine accounts for about nine per cent of its domestic wine sales and 13 per cent of total wine imports in Oz. Australians tend to drink a lot
Continuing our look back at some 2014 Okanagan Valley highlights hopefully inspires you to visit a winery or two in 2015, check out some restaurants, or simply enjoy some of our wine recommendations. Regular readers will know I’m crazy about
A mere moment with Michel Chapoutier is enough to change for life the way you think about wine. The northern Rhône producer and fierce defender of the notion of terroir is a veritable encyclopedia of wine knowledge and he has that rare gift
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