Premiere Napa Valley -- the annual trade auction of the Napa Valley Vintners -- offered a glimpse recently into the slowly recovering American wine market. It's not all rosy in the wine valley Robert Mondavi built, but a late auction bid of $125,000 for
The F-word, as in fortified wine, will be fully explored at the upcoming Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival and it can't come soon enough for wine drinkers. Diversity has become a dirty word among most mainstream wine buyers who lean far
Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival tickets are selling briskly, so it won't be long before the annual wine bash is upon us. In 2011, it's Spain's year and while the lineup of Spanish wineries is spotty, it more or less reflects the strength
Remember when everyone was drinking shiraz and I don't mean Syrah. Less than a decade ago, Australia wine was the darling of this market and dozens of delicious shiraz produced by mostly family-run wineries, and a few larger brands, were at every house
Most international winery types I meet are stunned by the progressive nature of wine consumers in British Columbia, especially when it comes to screwcaps. It seems we were early adopters and have embraced the closures with barely any resistance. You will
I'm hosting "Meet Your Match" Saturday, April 02 at the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival at VCC East, meeting room 8, 999 Canada Place Way 5:00-6:45 pm. They festival wants you to pay $75 to join us and find your perfect wine, get up, close
One of the things you get used to when you live on the West Coast is the rain. Add a little fog and a bit of wind and you have a great day for tasting or storm watching. Last week I found myself in Tofino amid the rain and fog and wind and I couldn't
I began the week in the windy, rain-swept Vancouver Island towns of Tofino and Ucluelet and wrapped up my travels in Hollywood, Calif., tasting Australian wine. Despite their proximity to the Pacific Ocean, the three communities are as different as day
How will your restaurant survive another year in Vancouver? Here's an idea: Why not create a wine list that attracts customers instead of driving them away? Before you go listing every wine your customers have never heard of to build a look-what-I
Before we get too far into the New Year I wanted to look back at some of the best and worst moments in wine for 2010. For Chateau Lafite Rothschild its best moment may turn out to be a worst for many of us. On October 29, in Hong Kong, a case of the 2009
On this New Year's Day I've been thinking about what I really want to drink this year and most of the time my thoughts come back to what I do not want to drink: nameless, faceless wines top the list and, I'm sorry to say, it's a long one. It's
Gismondi on Wine 2011 - Top 100 by Anthony Gismondi and Stuart Tobe We taste thousands of wines a year including a large number of wines that are no longer available through traditional retail channels. This list is our top 100 picks that for the most
Gismondi on Wine 2010 - Top 100 by Anthony Gismondi and Stuart Tobe We taste thousands of wines a year including a large number of wines that are no longer available through traditional retail channels. This list is our top 100
What will you be drinking on New Year's Eve? Convention says sparkling wine, and I say why mess with tradition? As suggested earlier this year, under the new 0.05 drinking-and driving regulations most of us will be partying at home where there is no added
It wasn't all that long ago you had a month to get organized for Christmas dinner. Well, for all you procrastinators out there, you now have one week to get the job done. If you have already experienced the weekend's most dreaded question: "Make sure
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