Real Wine

By: Anthony Gismondi

The Week In Review

Another Vancouver International Wine Festival has come and gone.

The Portuguese and Spanish put on a great show (read they sent many of their top producers and they brought some amazing wines) and frankly have issued a major challenge to next year’s theme region, California, announced on Saturday night. It’s going to be interesting to see if the ultra-conservative Californians will step up to the plate and capture the imagination of younger consumers living on the new and electric wines emanating throughout the international wine world. Time will tell, and we hope they will. Meanwhile, we have released scores of Tasting Notes in 2018 and we continue to do so everyday on GOW. In the coming weeks we will be launching an additional level of scrutiny to our wine reviews by noting the very best bottles we taste as “Real Wine.” Stay tuned for the story, and the roll out.

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.