Buckle Up

By: Anthony Gismondi

The Week In Review

As climate challenges and the anti-alcohol lobby loom large for 2025, the real issue is soaring wine prices, threatening to dampen consumption if unchecked.

Suffice it to say it will be an interesting year, but one thing will never change. The people making the best wine and selling it at a fair price will be sure to survive. They will be our focus in 2025. To those readers on a restricted budget, we recommend using our search tool to scan the thousands of wines our team is tasting to find authentic wines at the right price. Subscribe to our free monthly newsletter which will feature wine picks worth your time and wallet.

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Anthony Gismondi

Anthony Gismondi is a Canadian wine journalist and one of North America's most influential voices in wine. For over 37 years, he has been the wine columnist for The Vancouver Sun. The twice-weekly column is distributed across Canada through the Postmedia Network to millions of readers. He is also the host of the BC Food & Wine Radio Show, which is broadcast in 25 markets across B.C. and available globally as a podcast on all the major platforms. He launched Gismondionwine.com in 1997, which now attracts more than one million monthly users from 114 countries. It remains a valuable resource, offering tasting notes, insightful wine stories, and videos for the trade and consumers. His extensive collection of videos featuring wine personalities is available on the Gismondi on Wine YouTube Channel.