It’s October, and the big run to the holidays is gathering steam. The GOW filming team is back from France. Look for our first short film from Beaujolais with Georges DuBoeuf to be released just before the annual Beaujolais Nouveau launch, November
It all begins this week and September couldn’t be busier at GOW. We are hosting a fabulously relaxed evening of Indian food and Argentine wine with Luigi Bosca owner Albert Arizu at Vij’s on September 11. That’s a tutored tasting,
We have a newsletter. I know it’s shocking, but all good things take time. The first edition is out this week, and for now, it will be a monthly occurrence. We want to share specific topics with you each month, including top picks from the cellar,
School's out for summer, and we are back, or mostly back, in BC for a couple of months. I'll be travelling in the Okanagan and Washington to shoot some videos and explore, while Treve will be moving about the country and across the border into Oregon
Welcome back to Gismondi on Wine. Both Treve and I have been travelling early and often in 2019, but we have posted hundreds of Tasting Notes since January on a variety of wines. Did you know that if you click on READ FULL NOTE below any wine that appears
Today we dive deep into the 41st Vancouver International Wine Festival, popping the cork on 53 events, 160 wineries, 16 countries, 1,425 wines and 25,000 participants. Anthony's schedule is packed this week, always one of his busiest of the year. You
Close your eyes for a moment and January is almost gone. I’ve been on Vancouver Island tasting and Treve has been touring Chile while behind the scenes we are already gearing up for the Vancouver International Wine Festival at the end of February.
Happy Year from all of us at GOW, we hope 2019 has wonderful things in store for you and your family. Our plans are more of the same, to bring you daily wine reviews with perspective and experience and to report the stories behind the wines we most enjoy.
The Holidays are upon us and while I know some of you think our life is holiday we will be slowing down for few days to spend time with family and friends. We will post both wine notes and stories sporadically over the next week and then get after it
Both Treve and I are back in BC after trips to London/Portgual and Shanghai respectively, and we are doing our best impersonation of elves. We've been posting so much content, you can think of our website as a super-sized advent calendar of wine
Treve is at RAW Wine Montreal this week rubbing shoulders with the natural, organic and biodynamic producers from around the world, while I’m heading to Shanghai for few days to check out what kind of wine culture is blossoming in the city of 24
The weather has changed across the west coast and while summer may return for a few days we are kicking into fall mode with new reviews and several new videos. First up is a six-part short series on the Legacy of Robert Mondavi. Just about anybody in
It’s been a busy summer at GOW that began with numerous trips to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. The 2018 WineAlign National Wine Awards of Canada were completed along with a video update on Phantom Creek, hundreds of tasting
The 2018 Wine Align National Wine Awards are complete. The results of Canada’s largest competition for 100 percent Canadian grown wines are being published this week and next. This year's competition attracted over 1850 wines from
It’s all Canada this week at the 2018 Wine Align National Wine Awards, Canada’s largest competition for 100 percent Canadian grown wines. We have just completed the first round of The Nationals and tasting 1867 wines, now to be followed