Goodnight, Jurgen

By: Anthony Gismondi

Jurgen Gothe (1944-2015)

The Week In Review

After a long battle with cancer our friend Jurgen Gothe died last week.

He was the original BC wine guy, and his absence leaves a gap that will never be filled. He leaves behind a long trail of work in wine, food and music, first sharing our media space as a copy writer with CHQM/CHQM-FM Vancouver in the 1970s-1980s before hosting DiscDrive for CBC Radio Two, his golden voice guiding many decisions regarding all the good things in life - wine, food, music and cats. More than that he was a friend and a colleague and one of the leading and trusted writers/critics in Vancouver. He left hundreds of Uncorked wine columns in the Georgia Straight archives for all to enjoy, but in the end he left too soon. Our thoughts are with his wife Kate and the family. Cheers, and goodnight Jurgen.

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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.