We Have Champagne Tastes

By: Anthony Gismondi

Sparkling Plans for the Holidays

The Week In Review

There is plenty to be done this month, beginning with two huge tastings involving sparkling wine and Champagne.

You can expect two full reports by early December that will involve over 100 sparkling wines from around the world. In the meantime, Treve will be judging in Victoria at the upcoming Gold Medal Plates Dinner while I will be broadcasting live from Cornucopia in Whistler. Then we are off to Europe for a few days. Treve will be in Beaujolais and Madeira, as well as judging at the International Wine Challenge in London, and I will be in Northern Italy, before we both return for the festive December rush. GOW will be the place to be all December for your holiday wine shopping ideas. Meanwhile we are cranking out tasting notes as fast as we can at Gismondi on Wine, where the reviews 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.