One of the things we love about the Okanagan wine industry is the diversity of people coming from around the world with a large amount of work experience.
The latest is François Mateo, whose background includes working with the famed Champagne House Krug and with Eduardo Chadwick at Seña in Chile's Aconcagua Valley. After less than a month on the job at Phantom Creek Estate Winery, we spoke with François to get his first impressions of the region, the wines, and his new home on the Black Sage Bench.
Further viewing: Phantom Creek Estates Video Series by Gismondi on Wine
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.
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