It is Thanksgiving season in North America, first in mid-October here in Canada and later next month in the United States. It’s been a year of angst for many in the business of wine. From falling grape and wine prices to vineyards under attack by
A decade of runaway success for BC wine producers was frozen on January 12/13 by a devastatingly cold Arctic outbreak. Temperatures fell to -27 C in parts of the Okanagan and the Similkameen Valleys, dealing a deadly blow to vine buds waiting to burst
Summer is just around the corner, and with it comes many opportunities to be out of doors. Sign up for our monthly newsletter before you escape to the cabin, lake, or ocean. We have one of the highest open rates of any newsletter on wine.
Welcome to all the Italian producers and other wineries who have made the long trek to British Columbia to attend the 45th Vancouver International Wine Festival. We have several articles that will help you navigate the International Tasting Room with
Happy New Year, all. As we enter 2024, we embrace new beginnings with hope, dreams, and ambition for you and the much-beleaguered wine industry. We are not going anywhere but back to work because any sector that is 8000 years old isn’t going anywhere
We have a lot going on through the end of the year. We have been tasting scores of Champagne and even more Sparkling Wine in anticipation of our year-end reviews spearheaded by our sparkling wine specialist, Treve Ring. Both bubble categories will dominate
The heat is here, meaning refreshing white wines are on the menu. We have tasted several this month, so cruise the search engine for white wine under $30 for exciting picks. In fact, at GOW, you can use our advanced search engine to look for your favourites
The first warm days of spring are finally upon us, and many of you will be looking for refreshing white wines to serve on the patio. At GOW, you can use our advanced search engine to look for your favourites by grape variety and, in a global rarity, by
The Holidays are a distant memory, and the longest month, for many reasons, has come to an end. At GOW, we look forward to 2023. There is a lot of talk about tough times ahead for wine so we will be watching, but the truth is that wine has always been
The Holidays are just around the corner, and the GOW team has been tasting much wine. Since Canadian Thanksgiving, we have gone on long runs of notes, including chardonnays, Chianti, syrahs, assorted sparkling wine, chenin blancs, Bordeaux, gamays, Rioja,
The unofficial end of summer has arrived at GOW, and while we are all enjoying some warm, dry weather, fall is already in the night air, and we are preparing to change gears. We have been churning out the notes all summer and have plans for even more
As summer spreads across Canada, we are wrapping up the 2022 National Wine Awards results, with final reports expected to be slowly revealed beginning mid-month. At Gismondi on Wine, we are getting back to full strength as we pursue the latest in wine
As the crocuses pop up across the coast, we are reminded Spring isn't far off. The start of a new growing season brings hope to all farmers, and after the heat domes, wildfires, atmospheric rivers and deep freezes of 2021, it has to be a better one. As
Happy Holidays from all of us at Gismondi on Wine. If you haven't noticed, the GOW team has posted a lot of new tasting notes in the last 60 days. We will slow down over the next two weeks, but there will always be new notes and lots of content, including
The 2021 Wine Align National Wine Award winners are out, and we salute all the wineries that entered. We interview La Frenz co-owner Jeff Martin the winner of the NWAC's Best Performing Small Winery in Canada, No. 1 in BC and No.2 in Canada, and
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