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.

Written By: ag

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.