Festivals, Competitions, All the Rosé

By: Anthony Gismondi

The Week In Review

You still have a few days to pick up tickets and join us for dinner with Winemaker Mark Beringer, the great, great grandson of Jacob Beringer, at Glowbal Telus Gardens.

Tickets are $150 per person, taxes, fees and gratuities included. It should be a great night. Treve is off to Hawaii next week for the Kapalua Wine & Food Festival, while my co-head judge David Lawrason and I prepare for the 2018 Wine Align National Wine Awards, Canada’s largest competition for 100 percent Canadian grown wines. It all gets underway June 18 in Penticton, in the heart of the Okanagan Valley, with what looks to be another record number of entries. Meanwhile on the tasting table we have worked our way through dozens of rosés including our Top 10 BC Rosés to date. Earlier this week we published reviews for recently tasted sparkling rosés, and this week's Top 10 will be on international rosés. On July 1, fittingly, we will release the second part of our Canadian rosé reveiws - they just keep flooding in. Be sure to check out our daily notes at http://www.gismondionwine.com/tasting-notes/.

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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.