Perspective

By: Anthony Gismondi

Scoring for Life

The Week In Review

It’s become fashionable to bash wine reviews and reviewers in favour of more ‘reliable’ opinions, like friends you trust on social media.

We too love all the social mediums but we also bring extensive travel, thousands of on-site visits, decades of tasting experience and at GOW, 24,500 published reviews with our names on them. We can’t be right every time but more often than not we assess wines for what they are and what they might be and try to be fair by scoring them all on a global scale. The chance of your favourite $12 wine getting 90 points at GOW are miniscule, but an 87 or 88 for the same wine is an excellent score and big buy signal. It also maintains perspective leaving room for great wines to claim scores in the 90s that befit them and are meaningful. Okay, back to summer, the main harvest rush is only weeks off here in the northern hemisphere.

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 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.