London, Santiago, Oliver and more

By: Anthony Gismondi

The Week In Review

The travel cranks up this month.

Treve is back in London judging at the IWC and I’m on my way to the south Okanagan Valley for the season opening, broadcast of the Best of Food and Wine’s Grape Escape at Hester Creek, Saturday morning at 11am. Winery interviews will include La Stella, Le Vieux Pin, Tinhorn Creek, Bartier Brothers, Road 13, Clos du Soleil, Osoyoos Larose and C.C. Jentsch and our hosts, Hester Creek and Terrafina. Our Cheese Dream this week is L ‘Edel de Cleron, our Top Ten features Argentine malbec with riesling on deck. After that I’ll be in Santiago, Chile for a few days before we all return for the big The Great New Zealand Wine Tiki Tour May 4. We are closing in on 1000 reviews for 2017, estimated value $35K – free to you. Don’t forget to like our Facebook page.

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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.