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
Before 2014 completely fades from memory, I wanted to summarize more than a dozen forays into the Okanagan Valley and recognize a number of people places and wines. It’s the kind of information you can tuck away and use in 2015 if you are planning
It’s a new year in British Columbia but come April Fools’ Day it will be a new year for wine drinkers if government carries out its planned reset of liquor taxes. In its quest to modernize B.C. liquor laws, the government has announced
It’s a new year in wine and maybe time for a new approach, at least when it comes to selecting wine and — dare I say — remembering what it was you tasted last night. Almost all the information you need to taste a wine is on the label;
That was the fastest 52 weeks of my life. In a few days we will celebrate the arrival of 2015 but what of 2014 and the year in wine we leave behind. What was learned? What impressed? Where are we going? What will we be drinking in 2015? All good questions
Some would suggest procrastinators by nature are more curious wine drinkers than those who plan incessantly. That’s because by the time they get around to buying the most popular wines of the season, they are all long gone and they are left searching