Spring Travels

By: Anthony Gismondi

On the wine road to the Okanagan Valley and London, England

The Week In Review

The first of the local 2014 wines are hitting our tasting bench – a sure sign of spring.

I’ve just returned from the Okanagan Wine Leaders Forum in Naramata at the Sandy Beach Lodge – a great meeting of wine minds from here and abroad discussing the Okanagan as an emerging wine region was facilitated by the University of British Columbia Okanagan & Kedge Business School (Bordeaux). Not far from our rooms a moderate winter has the Naramata Bench looking flush with spring, and the vineyards primed for what is shaping up to be another promising vintage. I’ll be back up to Osoyoos shortly with Kasey Wilson to judge at the Osoyoos Oyster Festival. Meanwhile, Treve is off to London this weekend to judge at the International Wine Challenge and Stuart and I have a lot of wine to taste. Remember you can follow our top wine finds on Instagram at GismondiOnWine. Thanks again for visiting Gismondi on Wine where the scores are about the wines, not the reviewers.

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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.