Spain/Portugal to headline 2018 VIWF

By: Anthony Gismondi

Festival dates return to late February.

The Week In Review

The 40th Vancouver International Wine Festival returns to its regular late February dates in 2018 and officials have announced Spain and Portugal will be the theme countries.

That gives us a year to get to Spain and Portugal and to update our stories and reviews in time for the festival. In the meantime, ProWein is on the horizon, in Dusseldorf, Germany. The next festival headed for Vancouver is the California Wine Fair. It’s year 37^th for the Golden State show coming Monday, April 24. We will be posting our festival notes in the coming days and I’m catching up on my notes from Italy and the many visitors who make it to BC. In the meantime, there are plenty of new reviews to check out, not to mention our latest Top Ten released as usual, every Thursday.

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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 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.