Competition Makes us Stronger

By: Anthony Gismondi

The Week In Review

At the end of a week in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, at the seventeenth Wine Align National Wine Awards, 24 judges have managed to whittle down 1700 entries to about 350 heading for the final rounds.

Full competition results will be announced sometime in mid-July and published at www.winealign.ca. In the meantime, you can catch up on our current Cheese Dream: Burrata, our Top 10 Reds for Father’s Day, our latest video on the origins of Kiwi sauvignon blanc, and of course dozens of new reviews posted in the last 30 days.

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Anthony Gismondi

Anthony Gismondi is a Canadian wine journalist and one of North America's most influential voices in wine. For over 30 years, he has been the wine columnist for The Vancouver Sun. The twice-weekly column is distributed across Canada through the Postmedia Network to millions of readers. In addition, Anthony hosts the BC Food & Wine Radio Show, broadcast in 25 markets across B.C. and available as a podcast on major platforms. He launched Gismondionwine.com in 1997, attracting one million monthly users from 114 countries. It continues to be a valuable resource full of tasting notes, intelligent wine stories and videos for the trade and consumers. Conversations with wine personalities are available on his YouTube Channel.