The Earliest Crop Ever?

By: Anthony Gismondi

The Week In Review

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 stellar crop so far. You can look for the latest additions to our BC Winegrower Series to be released over the month of August. I’ll be working the results for ‘The Nationals’ over the next week or two as Wine Align prepares to announce The Canadian Winery of the Year, and new for 2015, an award for the Best Performing Small Winery producing 10,000 cases of wine or less. Stuart is off to Oregon on a pinot noir adventure while Treve and I plough through a large batch of reviews so expect plenty of new notes throughout the summer at GOW. Enjoy the summer while it lasts.

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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.