February is Festival Month

By: Anthony Gismondi

The Week In Review

Snow continues to dog Vancouver as most residents long for some liquid sunshine, better known as snow removal.

There’s always red wine and there will be plenty of it when the 39^th Vancouver International Wine Festival opens next weekend with the annual Bacchanalia Gala Auction + Dinner on Saturday night. Treve and I will be busy all week taking part in seminars, tasting countless wines and interviewing many of the 181 principals in town for the longest running wine festival in North America - and of course reporting back to you as soon as possible (keep an eye on our Instagram for our picks live from the show). In the meantime, there are plenty of new reviews to check out, not to mention our Top Ten list released every Thursday, and so much more here at Gismondi on Wine.

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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 30 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. In addition, Anthony hosts the BC Food & Wine Radio Show, broadcast in 25 markets across B.C. and available as a podcast on major platforms. He launched Gismondionwine.com in 1997, attracting one million monthly users from 114 countries. It continues to be a valuable resource full of tasting notes, intelligent wine stories and videos for the trade and consumers. Conversations with wine personalities are available on his YouTube Channel.