Hello and welcome to gismondionwine.com. a centre for information on a wide variety of wine and wine related events. Although we are based in Vancouver, British Columbia our wine reach is as global as the web. Our reviews, scores, comments and editorial opinions are based on two decades of serious wine tasting (half of it pre-dating the computer age) and it continues daily.
Wherever possible we have divided up the information into useful bits, some free, some you’ll soon have to pay for as we prepare to cater to both the trade and consumers at all levels. For now sit back, grab a glass, enjoy the ride and use our reviews to help you with your wine purchases.
ANTHONY GISMONDI
Anthony Gismondi is one of Canada’s most influential wine critics. A top-rated writer, broadcaster and speaker, his expertise is widely acknowledged throughout the international wine community. The Simon Fraser University graduate has been the weekly wine columnist for the Vancouver Sun since 1989. Mr. Gismondi is also a consultant to Air Canada where he assists in the selection of in-flight wines served system-wide by Canada’s largest airline.
Mr. Gismondi is a senior editor with responsibilities for international wines at “Wine Access - Canada’s Essential Guide to Wine and Spirits.” The magazine is published nine times a year and is available nationally on newsstands or by subscription.
In 2002 he launched a comprehensive wine website www.gismondionwine.com that contains a large and growing database of wines and stories chronicling his work and adventures in the world of wine.
Additionally, he and food writer/author Kasey Wilson co-host a popular fast-paced live radio show called The Best of Food and Wine on CFUN/CHUM radio. The Best of Food & Wine has broadcast on location from food and wine festivals in New York, Sonoma, Seattle, Banff, Victoria, and Whistler.
The Restaurant Association of BC awarded him Media-Person of the Year for Outstanding Reporting in the Field of Hospitality in 1998.
Recent Wine Travels
In the last 30 months Mr. Gismondi's wine travel included stops in Finland, Iceland, the Columbia, Yakima and Walla Walla Valleys in Washington State; the Central Coast, Mendocino, Sonoma County and Napa Valley, California; Somontano, Navarra and Priorato and Penedès, Spain; South Africa’s Cape Wine Region; Italy’s Piedmont; Mendoza, Argentina; Chile’s Maipo, Lontué, Aconcagua, Maule, Curicó, Colchagua Valleys; France: Bordeaux, Pauillac, Champagne; Ontario: Niagara Peninsula; British Columbia: Okanagan Valley; New Zealand: Marlborough, Hawke’s Bay; France: Beaujolais and Burgundy.
Contact:
Anthony Gismondi
1177 Esplanade Avenue
West Vancouver, British Columbia V7T 1G3
Phone: (604) 926-4751
Fax: (604) 990-9675
E-mail: anthony@gismondionwine.com
Website: www.gismondionwine.com
STUART TOBE
Stuart Tobe has been active in the wine industry for over twenty-five years. He was one of the first Canadians to receive his Master of Science degree in Enology from the University of California, Davis in 1983.
Stuart has worked as an assistant winemaker in California, Burgundy, and Australia and as a management consultant in the wine and beverage industry worldwide. An ardent oenophile and enologist, Stuart is also a Past President of the Vancouver Australian Wine Appreciation Society and is the cellar master of the Commanderie de Bordeaux in Vancouver.
He has been with Wine Access as a contributor and tasting panel member for over five years and is currently the Director of Tastings for Gismondi On Wine. Stuart currently provides business valuation, financing and investment research services. He holds a BSc in Biochemistry, an MBA, and an MSc in Enology and has completed Level 3 of the Chartered Financial Analyst program.
Contact: stobe@gismondionwine.com
JOHN SCHREINER
His passion for wine has caused John Schreiner to lead a double life. The Saskatchewan native had one 40-year career as a business writer with The Financial Post. But a tour of the Robert Mondavi winery in Napa in 1974, conducted by the legendary winemaker Zelma Long, sparked an intense interest in wine. Since then, he has developed a parallel career as a wine writer, starting with regular columns in The Financial Post and Vancouver Magazine.
His major focus has been on writing books about wine. He has authored seven wine books, beginning with The World of Canadian Wines, published in 1984. The Wineries of British Columbia, of which more than 7,000 copies have been sold, was published in 1994. A complete revision will appear in 2004.
The British Columbia Wine Companion, a compendium of essays, history and biography, was published in 1996. His third book on British Columbia wines, Chardonnay and Friends, was published in 1998. Icewine: The Complete Story, the first comprehensive international book on this dessert wine, was published in November 2001 and was judged “best book on wine history” in English that year in the World Gourmand cookbook and wine book competition.
CedarCreek Wine Journal is being published early in 2003. British Columbia Wine Country was published in March 2003 by Whitecap.
In 2002, the Okanagan Wine Festivals Society presented Schreiner with its Founders Award, an award given annually since 1984 to recognize contributions to the British Columbia wine industry.
A member of numerous wine societies and an award-winning home vintner, Schreiner has toured wineries in virtually all of the world’s major wine regions. He is a graduate of the German Wine Academy and has judged in wine competitions in Canada and abroad. His articles on wine appear in Wine Access, Vines, Decanter.com, National Post, the Globe and Mail, and NUVO magazine.
Schreiner also is chair of the selection committee of the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival.
Contact: goodgrog.ca
