Vancouver Sun wine expert Anthony Gismondi highlights the highs and lows of 2019
Today we look back on 2019, a year in which American wine critic Robert Parker officially retired from the wine business.
Closer to home, two British Columbia wineries shone at the National Wine Awards of Canada in 2019. Mission Hill Family Estate won the coveted Canadian Winery of the Year award on the strength of 18 medals, eight of which belong to its Terroir Collection introduced to highlight single vineyard sites in the Okanagan Valley. Oliver-based Moon Curser Vineyards earned the Best Performing Small Winery grabbing one platinum and six gold medals.
Wildfires in wine country have become a terrifying, almost weekly story that is now affecting tourism. Many regions are seeing a shift in visitors to earlier in the year to avoid the new normal of summer and fall fires, not to mention those who have given up on touring wine country at all. You can add smoke, hail, rain and rot — factors that remind us that grape growing is farming and farming is tough, and getting tougher with global climate change.
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