North America's largest consumer and trade wine show, the Vancouver International Wine Festival, returns this year, running April 22 to 30, later than its usual end-of-February position on the calendar, a date it will return to next year. Another temporary
Dorothy J Gaiter and John Brecher conceived and wrote The Wall Street Journal's wine column, "Tastings," from 1998 to 2010. While both have distinguished careers in journalism at The Miami Herald, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, they
Marc André Hugel is a member of the 13th generation of the famed Alsace wine producer Famille Hugel. At the tender age of 29 he is about to become the technical director responsible for all production duties at the winery. We caught up with him
The GOW team reports from the floor of the 22nd annual National Wine Awards of Canada, taking place this year, June 19 - 24, in Niagara Falls, Ontario. TREVE: It's day 3 of NWAC22, and my dream team panel (Michael Godel and Brent Muller) has just
The Torres family has been an early adopter in sustainable winemaking. Their Ancestral Varieties project is just one initiative, where they identified and then created a solution, tracking down long-forgotten grape varieties that had once thrived in Spain
Peter Fraser has been wowing the wine critics almost since his arrival in 2000 at McLaren Vale's famed Yangarra Estate. Noted Australian MW Andrew Caillard says, "Peter Fraser consistently produces some of Australia's finest grenache and shiraz wines.
Big news at Mission Hill, President Darryl Brooker is leaving the winery. Brooker has worked some twenty-five years in the wine business and has made the personal decision to transition into another, agricultural-based industry. Brooker told me it
I am a fan of joint ventures that bring interesting wine people together from different cultures with different ideas. It was Luce's genesis, a Super Tuscan red involving two prominent wine families: the Old World Frescobaldi family of Florence and the
There’s a lot of talk about the 2015 Brunello di Montalcino wines. Growers were no doubt thrilled to put the challenging 2014s behind them quickly. But the hype about the 2015s is mostly well deserved. Yes, it was a warm year, but it also wasn’t
Some wine folks are larger than life. They come with an incredible capacity to work, and the best are very humble. Laura Catena is one such person whose return to the family business has seen her father's dream to be among the very best producers in the
In the finale of our video series, filmed in France, we visit passionate biodynamic advocate Gérard Bertrand at the center of his operations, Château L'Hospitalet, just outside his beloved hometown of Narbonne. We also had a chance to visit
This year, Jean-Claude Mas celebrates 20 years since he launched Les Domaines Paul Mas, the winery he named after his father. That it is 2020 adds a certain symmetry to the celebrations. After two decades of experience building a global wine company,
Alberto Arizu joined us in early September for an evening of food, wine and conversation at Vij's Restaurant in Vancouver. Arizu is the CEO of Bodega Luigi Bosca and a fourth-generation family member whose legacy dates back to 1901 when Arizu's great
This month, the GOW team attended a portfolio tasting at Trialto wines in Vancouver. We tasted some wines and shot some videos of the winemakers, owners and representatives of the wines. DJ Kearney summarises each of the wines featured and grouped
We attended a global wine tasting in Vancouver last month. While we were there we asked sixteen winery owners, winemakers and brand ambassadors from nine countries to present one wine they felt our readers should not miss, and to describe it in about
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