It's December 23 - less than 48 hours until Christmas - and you need to pick up the perfect wine for your brunch / dinner / gift / celebration? We can help. There's never an excuse to drink bad wine, at any price point, and it's just as easy to purchase
It’s officially panic time. With less than two weeks to go to Christmas we are in high gear tasting all manner of wine. Last week it was Champagne, today it is sparkling wine and just in case you need any more bubble information, Treve is winging
December! How did that happen? It seems like just last week we were launching the new GismondiOnWine site, shiny and bright, during Vancouver International Wine Fest Week. Fast forward 10 months and here we are, opening December and heading into a busy,
The holiday countdown is on but there are still places to go and people to see. Treve is off to Franciacorta this week to continue her global sparkling wine journey - and speaking of sparkling, we're gearing up for our annual GOW champagne tasting in
Some of you have noticed our website has been a little temperamental over the past week. We've been moving over to a new, super speedy server. Even with the pace of our new landing, it took a few days to move over the massive amount of data on Gismondi
After a long weekend of drinking, eating and drinking (I mean tasting), the GOW team are back at it. Anthony heads down to Sonoma this week, is busy prepping for a trip to Australia next month and I'm working out upcoming travels for Italy. With fall's
Somehow we're a week into October, and mere days from Thanksgiving. As ever, things are busy at GOW with fall releases streaming in the door and planning well underway for our winter holiday coverage. Today, however, we're focused on Top Ten wines for
A quick visit in and out of the northern Okanagan Valley this weekend revealed three interesting notes. Visitor numbers are up 20 to 30 percent at wineries this summer as tourists flocked to wine country. The 2015 harvest is now well along the timeline
This is the last little lull for a while, the brief pause between the height of summer and the highs of harvest. We've just returned to BC from judging the World Wine Awards of Canada; you can read Anthony's Final Blend report on the competition posted
The 2015 harvest began in the Okanagan last week, approximately two weeks earlier than 'normal', if there is such a thing as normal anymore. A hot, dry spring and summer has forced the hands of numerous growers to pick earlier than expected, and while
It's done, it's out and it's ready to use. The WineAlign National Wine Awards of Canada are out and British Columbia wineries have done very well. I’m always amazed at the attention domestic wineries afford foreign accolades and medals given
Today, it poured. At least on the south coast of BC, pounding driving rain, thunder and lightening - albeit briefly - before a late afternoon return to blue skies and calm sun. Such is the new reality of global climate change. The weather, the world over,
A quick week of filming in the Okanagan on behalf of the Vancouver Sun revealed a mostly healthy crop load across the valley all some ten days to three weeks ahead of normal. With veraison a mere week or two off, smoke could be an issue with an otherwise
The Nationals are complete and the WineAlign team and our judges have returned to their homes across the country. The results are in the hopper and you can expect the winners including The Canadian Winery of the Year, and new for 2015, an award for the
Back home to B.C., and what a glorious weekend for it. After a few months of travel, sights are now squarely focused on preparing for the National Wine Awards of Canada. Anthony and Earl have been busy organizing the 1500 or so wines into appropriate
I'm writing this halfway through a week in Washington State wine country, an intensive tasting and touring adventure to try and determine what makes Washington State wine unique. We're practically neighbours, and I've certainly seen my share of sagebrush,
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