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Anthony interviews Ross Wise MW, the Director of Winemaking and GM for Black Hills Estate Winery near Oliver, British Columbia, shortly after learning that their 2022 Bona Fide had garnered one of the few platinum medals at the 2024 National Wine Awards of Canada. Check Anthony's note on this wine, and Geoffrey Moss's article on the red blend category, which will be published July 26.

We speak with Marica Bonomo, part of the third generation at Monte del Frà, near Verona, Italy. The Venetian estate was originally a monastery back in the 15th century. Today, the winery exemplifies how the region has become more than just Amarone.

We first encountered Eric Monnin during Covid in a Zoom video discussing Project 'B,' Boutinot’s first reach into Canada after years of selling its international portfolio of wines across the country. We met Monnin, head winemaker for Boutinot International, at the 45th Vancouver International Wine Festival to discuss his work in Cairanne and the vineyards they call the Croissant Côte-d'Or.

Anthony appeared on Osoyoos radio station Bounce 1240 with Brock Jackson, May 8, 2024. He reported on his observations visiting vineyards in the Similkameen and South Okanagan valleys and conversations with winegrowers in the area.

Terralux Estate Winery is still under construction, and it hopes to add to British Columbia’s growing number of impressive winery facilities by the fall of 2024. The winery and its estate vineyard sit in the northern shadows of Mt Boucherie and will undoubtedly add even more glitter to the West Kelowna winery trail. They bottled their first wines in 2018, working with their West Kelowna estate grapes and two other sites they own in Okanagan Falls and the Similkameen Valley. We spoke with Kevin Rossion, the winery's General Manager and Vineyard Manager at the recent Vancouver International Wine Festival and asked him to explain Terralux's direction. He talked about vineyards and wines and revealed some of the stunning details going into the winery. Kevin invites you all to visit the winery site and take in the pop-up tasting room, available all summer until the project comes to fruition later in the year.

We speak with Master of Wine Gillian Ballance at the 2024 Vancouver International Wine Festival to talk about Castello di Gabbiano and the designation of Gran Selezione for the Chianti Classico region in which the estate resides.

Anthony interviews Mark Sheridan, President of Hester Creek Estate Wines in the South Okanagan on the British Columbia's first sub-appellation, the Golden Mile Bench. The winery has Canada's oldest vines, planted back in 1968 and we hear how they're holding up against the deep freezes over the past two years. Mark has a glass half full perspective when considering the recent challenges and their effects on B.C.s wine industry as a whole.

Anthony Gismondi interviews Richard Da Silva, Co-Proprietor & Vigneron for Da Silva Vineyards in the Okanagan where his family has farmed for decades. Richard offers his insights on the recent deep freezing events in the past two years and what he feels must change to reduce the natural and not-so-natural pressures on making a living making and selling wine in British Columbia and Canada.