Michael Godel

Michael Godel
Followers (297)
Reviews (33965)
  • (834)
  • (408)
 

For the past 13 years Michael Godel has been tasting and assessing wine as a journalist, a critic and partner at WineAlign.com. He is often called “Godello,” a nickname that just happens to double as a terrific white Spanish grape. Godel has spent the better part of his writing career travelling planet wine in search of varietal truth and in that time has crafted more than 31,000 lengthy tasting notes, most of them positive, all of them thorough. He processes his thoughts, musings, stream of consciousness and experiences on wine, travel, music and pop culture at his eponymous website godello.ca.

Chef Michael hung up his well-used, 25 year-old whites when he closed up shop in December 2013 after a rewarding 25-year culinary run in Toronto restaurants and with the catering business he owned called All Our Favourite Foods. In March of 2011 he teamed up with Chef David Neinstein at Toronto's Barque Smokehouse and March 2024 will mark his 13th anniversary as Wine Director of the Toronto restaurant. He also makes a line of small lot wines out of Chianti Classico in Tuscany and the Niagara Peninsula, including Corretta Chianti Classico, All Day Rosé, Interloper Cabernet Franc, As Is Field Blend and Paramour Gamay.

Investigative wine travels in the last 10 years have included destinations like British Columbia, Nova Scotia, California, New York, Argentina, South Africa, Germany, France, Portugal and Spain, but Italy has commanded much of Godel’s attention. Fortune has smiled to the tune of 60 trips in ten years with more than half of them to Tuscany and in particular Chianti Classico. In February 2018 the Consorzio Vino Chianti Classico made Godel one of their first five recipients of an Ad Honorem title, “Ambasciatore.” As Canadian ambassador he educates on behalf of the Tuscan territory’s Gallo Nero and their noble Sangiovese. Twelve excursions in Montalcino have also led to educating on behalf of the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino. From 2016-2019 these Sangiovese investigations took the form of in person seminars and masterclasses for sommeliers, trade and media, but also restaurant staff education. In 2020 and 2021 the pivot led to lecturing more than a dozen online webinar sessions. Godel has also served as an educator for the Italian Chamber of Commerce of Ontario (ICCO), Rioja DOCa, Vins de Bourgogne, Le Marche, Barbera d'Asti e vini del Monferrato, Asti Wines and Wines of Portugal, including for the wines of Vinho Verde.

Serving as a judge for the annual WineAlign National Wine Awards of Canada since 2013 has been the greatest honour and Godello has always been proud to taste, assess and award medals alongside colleague David Lawrason at Canada’s Great Kitchen Party and with Tony Aspler’s Ontario Wine Awards. Michael lives in Toronto with his wife of 28 years and three children.

http://godello.ca mgodlelo

Latest Reviews (33387 in total)

Show 10, 25, 50, 100 wines per page
  Wine Rating Price Quantity  
Domaine Danjean Berthoux Aligoté La Chanière 2018 Bottle Domaine Danjean Berthoux Aligoté La Chanière 2018
Burgundy, France
Agent
Review added: March 06, 2020
Sign In to see Critic Reviews. Not a Member? Please Sign Up.
$30.00 Shopping_bag
Cormòns Sauvignon 2018, Collio Bottle Cormòns Sauvignon 2018, Collio
Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Agent
Review added: March 06, 2020
Sign In to see Critic Reviews. Not a Member? Please Sign Up.
$21.50 Shopping_bag
13th Street Gamay 2017, VQA Niagara Peninsula Bottle
Nwac19_bronze_thumbnail
13th Street Gamay 2017, VQA Niagara Peninsula
Ontario, Canada
177824
Review added: March 05, 2020
Sign In to see Critic Reviews. Not a Member? Please Sign Up.
$19.95 None
(0)V
La Villatade V Red 2016, Pays D'oc Bottle La Villatade V Red 2016, Pays D'oc
Languedoc, France
Agent
Review added: March 04, 2020
Sign In to see Critic Reviews. Not a Member? Please Sign Up.
$18.95 Shopping_bag
Chateau La Villatade Cotes Noires, Aop Minervois 2016, A.P. Minervois Bottle Chateau La Villatade Cotes Noires, Aop Minervois 2016, A.P. Minervois
Languedoc, France
Agent
Review added: March 04, 2020
Sign In to see Critic Reviews. Not a Member? Please Sign Up.
$27.95 Shopping_bag
Bricco Rosso Dogliani 2016, Docg Bottle Bricco Rosso Dogliani 2016, Docg
Piedmont, Italy
705699
Review added: March 03, 2020
Sign In to see Critic Reviews. Not a Member? Please Sign Up.
$15.95 None
(0)V
Stonestreet Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2016, Sonoma County Bottle Stonestreet Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2016, Sonoma County
California, Usa
435099
Review added: March 03, 2020
Sign In to see Critic Reviews. Not a Member? Please Sign Up.
$59.95 None
(0)V
Clos Lachance Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2017, Estate Vineyards, Santa Clara Valley Bottle Clos Lachance Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2017, Estate Vineyards, Santa Clara Valley
California, Usa
104703
Review added: March 03, 2020
Sign In to see Critic Reviews. Not a Member? Please Sign Up.
$29.95 None
(0)V
G.D. Vajra Barolo Docg Bricco Delle Viole 2015 Bottle G.D. Vajra Barolo Docg Bricco Delle Viole 2015
Piedmont, Italy
Agent
Review added: March 02, 2020
Sign In to see Critic Reviews. Not a Member? Please Sign Up.
$113.95 Shopping_bag
G.D. Vajra Barolo Docg Coste Di Rose 2015 Bottle G.D. Vajra Barolo Docg Coste Di Rose 2015
Piedmont, Italy
Agent
Review added: March 02, 2020
Sign In to see Critic Reviews. Not a Member? Please Sign Up.
$101.95 Shopping_bag
Show 10, 25, 50, 100 wines per page