I'm writing this from New Zealand, nearing the end of an 18 day trip around the country, and Anthony is just about to head off to Argentina. While wine world travel is huge part of what we do, we're both focusing on what's happening at home at the end
Welcome 2016. It's a new year, and time for setting goals. Our GOW goal is to focus on wines that matter. We've always been promoting singular, interesting wines, wines from a place, wines with a story. These are what are important to us and this year
Happy New Year from all of us at Gismondi On Wine. Our new site has been a beast to tame but with 24,000 notes and nearly 2000 articles we knew it would take time to get everything in order. It’s all falling into place now and we promise even more
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,
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