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,
There's a lot to learn in forty vintages. Of course there's the change in the vines themselves, growing from nimble slender plants to gnarled, burly trunks. There's change in viticultural practices as well, watching the pendulum swing from old school
I have returned from a whirlwind tour of California tasting 400 plus wines last week and Treve is back from the hallowed vineyards of Chablis. New Zealand invades Vancouver this week leading with its best varietal that no one ever talks about: chardonnay.
As Stuart, Treve and I power through the past few weeks of submissions, we’ll also be posting notes from our recent travels and visits. I’ve just returned from the Okanagan and can assure that vintage 2015 is on par thus far – watch
The first of the local 2014 wines are hitting our tasting bench – a sure sign of spring. I’ve just returned from the Okanagan Wine Leaders Forum in Naramata at the Sandy Beach Lodge – a great meeting of wine minds from here and abroad
After a long battle with cancer our friend Jurgen Gothe died last week. He was the original BC wine guy, and his absence leaves a gap that will never be filled. He leaves behind a long trail of work in wine, food and music, first sharing our media space
It’s the first day of British Columbia’s new liquor landscape and retailers of all stripes are preparing to sell beer, wine and spirits in one of the most bizarre liquor markets on the continent. A new wholesale tax, part of government’s
It’s the first day of spring, but we’ve been spring cleaning for the past week, clearing out a cache of wine reviews and making room for the new releases that start popping up like tulips at this time of year. Expect to see many fresh white
March 8, 2015. We’re still busy testing the new site and working on the back end, behind the scenes. We expect to have full access later this week so we can start posting the cache of reviews Stuart, Treve and I have filed from the last month. We
Thanks for all the kind words regarding our new design and re-launch. There is much to be done to get where we need to be but it was important to us to be up and running for the Vancouver International Wine Festival last week. In the coming days we will
Of course we chose the busiest wine week of the year in Vancouver to launch the new version of Gismondi on Wine. We figured it was fitting timing, with tens of thousands of additional wine bottles and wine lovers floating around the city. We are rolling
That was a quick January and there is less than a month to the start of North America's longest running wine festival. Tickets to the Vancouver International Wine Festival are going fast and many seminars and dinners have already sold out, so don't delay.Trade
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