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Anthony Gismondi


Anthony Gismondi is a Canadian wine journalist and one of North America’s most influential wine voices. He is currently in his 29th year as the wine columnist at the Vancouver Sun where one million readers see his twice weekly wine columns and videos in British Columbia and across the country on the Post Media Network. His comprehensive wine review website www.gismondionwine.com, one of the first such sites on the internet, features over 25,000 tasting notes and attracts over a half million wine-targeted visitors a month from some 70 countries. Anthony is also the co-host of the longest running, weekly, wine and food show in Canadian radio: The Best of Food and Wine on the TSN Radio Network across British Columbia. You can listen to the show multiple times per week.

Mr. Gismondi is also a Partner and Principal Critic at WineAlign, Canada’s busiest online social media wine site boasting one million unique visitors a year. Along with his reviews and writing responsibilities he is he co-founder of the ‘National Wine Awards of Canada’ now in its 19th year. In addition to his newspaper duties, Mr Gismondi is the ‘Canada’ section editor for Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book (now in its 42nd edition). When he is not tasting, writing or broadcasting Mr. Gismondi spends an average of three months per year on the road in wine country around the world because, place matters.