Falling for Wine

By: Anthony Gismondi

2015 is looking good across the Okanagan Valley

The Week In Review

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 and depending upon the latitude of your fruit you could be anywhere from 30 to 60 percent finished. Finally the early start and the long warm growing season has created some unusual site specific conditions that have some red grape varieties ripening before some whites. So far most of the fruit looks fabulous with the only issues likely being higher alcohol levels and possibly lower acidities but even this could change over the next month. Meanwhile we continue to fine tune our website launching The Library on GOW, previewing the BC Winegrowers Series, and posting hundreds of reviews in August and September. You can follow our fall travel and tastes on Instagram @GismondiOnWine.

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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.