We drink a lot of fizz here at GOW. A lot. Now that’s established, it’s pretty evident we think you should drink a lot of fizz too. Not just on special occasions, but any day. Every day. The sparkle of bubbly in your glass makes any day
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,
This Thursday, Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivée. This unique annual event, falling on the third Thursday in November, is when baby-fresh Beaujolais is officially launched and sold worldwide. Nouveau is a youthful wine. It’s speedily made from
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
Even in this accessible age of the internets, there is one hard copy, hefty, tactile tome that I use more than any other resource out there. Wine Grapes is worth its 3kg weight in gold to me, a complete guide to 1368 vine varieties, including their origins
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
As Anthony mentioned in his National Wine Awards of Canada article, and as the detailed coverage on WineAlign reveals, competition at the Nationals was tight this year, with the quality of the wines higher than ever before. BC did incredibly well in 2015,
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 countdown is on to Top Drop Vancouver, the city's two-day celebration of craft. The independent event, now in its second year, brings together international terroir-focused wineries, craft breweries, cideries and foodstuffs with the people that
On May 24, 1976, a youthful Steven Spurrier held a seminal tasting of French and American wine known as The Judgment of Paris. On August 25, 2015, Mr. Spurrier, now a consulting editor at Decanter Magazine and Chair of the Decanter World Wine Awards,
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
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,
There’s a place where all devout pinot-philes go. No – it’s not heaven (the golden slopes of Burgundy) or hell (where MegaPurple flows from the faucets). It’s the International Pinot Noir Celebration, colloquially IPNC, and widely
I love drinking rosé wines any time of year, though there is little better than sitting in the warm summer sunlight enjoying a refreshing glass of crisp, dry rosé. Think Pink. Rosés really are the best of both wine worlds, especially
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