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June 17th, 2017 – Live from the BC Shellfish Festival…

June 16, 2017 Tasting Room Radio, Weekly Show

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LIVE from the 11th annual BC Shellfish festival in Courtney Comox 

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 The unique culinary event that promotes the region’s shellfish farmers and their delicacies to seafood lovers and chefs grows bigger every year.  This is Year 11.

Tasting Room Radio is covering both weekends.

 

What originally began as a one‐day event 11 years ago, has become the largest seafood festival in Western Canada, featuring popular local and international culinary celebrities and outstanding seafood.

Highlights for 2017 include the B.C. Seafood on Your Plate Restaurant Campaign, the B.C. Seafood Expo, a completely new Fresh Fest and the Fanny Bay Oyster Shucking Competition and OceanWise Chowder Challenge at the signature festival event, the Comox by the Sea Celebration,  Sunday, June 18th. For more information and tickets, visit bcshellfishfestival.com and bcseafoodexpo.com.

 WE ARE LIVE SATURDAY AT 10 AM!!

Our guests include:

 Culinary leader –  Don House Calgary http://www.idmg.ca/about-1/

Darren MacLean – Shokunin Calgary https://twitter.com/chefdmac?lang=en

Duncan Ly – Foreign Concept  Calgary  http://foreignconcept.ca/

JinnHee Lee – Foreign Concept Calgary  http://foreignconcept.ca/

Trevor Bird = Fable/Fable Diner  Vancouver www.fablekitchen.ca

Ned Bell – Ocean Wise. Van Aquarium  https://cookculture.com/blogs/chef-profiles/25079745-chef-ned-bell

Nick Nutting – The Wolf in the Fog.  Tofino  http://www.wolfinthefog.com/ 

Rod Butters – Raudz Kelowna  www.raudz.com 

Brock Bowes – Terra Fina  http://www.terrafinarestaurant.com/

 

Blue Moon

40 knots Winery  https://www.40knotswinery.com/

Blue Moon  https://www.bluemoonwinery.ca

Nathan Fong – Fong on Food www.fongonfood.com

 

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STORIES WE’RE WORKING ON

  • John Schreiner – Icon
  • Skitchine Lodge with Rhys Pender. John Weber & Chef Mark Filatow
  • Cider Special
  • Bloom – BC VQA wines pour in Vancouver.

 

 

 

 

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TRR Jan 11 2025 – This is Wine School & BC Wines Direct to Alberta

January 11, 2025 Tasting Room Radio 0:46:48

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This is Wine School –  Kelcie Jones and Jenna Brisco wine educators
And
BIG NEWS:   BC Wineries can now sell directly to Alberta consumers.  
The Guest is Paul Sawler. Board Chair Wine Growers of BC.   Plus sales & marketing for Dirty Laundry.

THE SHOW 

 
This is Wine School 
Smaller, funny and essential wine school in Chinatown with outstanding educators.
This is Wine School

The guests are

Kelcie Jones –  The Best Sommelier in BC 2023
As a perennial student of wine, Kelcie holds the WSET Diploma, 3IC Italian wine certificate, and is a Stage 2 student with the Institute of Masters of Wine. She teaches WSET courses to novices and industry professionals alike and leads BC Wine Ambassador courses locally. For the past half-decade, Kelcie was Wine Director for Chambar Restaurant in Vancouver, where she managed a team of sommeliers and led them to several Platinum Awards at the Vancouver International Wine Festival.
Following that, she opened Elephant on Powell as GM and wine director, which was featured in the Michelin guide and Air Canada’s En Route in its first year. Outside of wine, Kelcie holds a Master’s in English Literature from the University of Toronto
Jenna Brisco – Partner and Educator
Jenna has a diverse background in the wine industry, spanning hospitality and business consulting. She earned her WSET Diploma in 2018 and now teaches the programme in Vancouver. She also completed the WSET Educator Training Programme in 2019. Jenna is the Project Director for Top Drop Canada, a terroir-focused wine festival, and serves as an international wine judge. A student in the Master of Wine programme, she became a VinItaly Italian Wine Ambassador in 2018.
Her sommelier experience includes work at Vancouver’s Hawksworth and Elisa, as well as London’s Medlar and Lorne. For over 10 years she was the General Manager of Café Medina in Vancouver. In 2016, Vancouver Magazine named her a top front-of-house ‘All-Star’ for her work there.
Jenna is currently the Technical Director for the Best Sommelier of British Columbia and has helped curate the Best Sommelier of Canada competition. Best of all, she is a new Mom. Congratulations.
I was fascinated by This is Wine School. From the title alone.
 
But I had also worked with Kelcie at Van Wine Fest and judged with Jenna at Lt Governer’s Awards.  It felt like a good fit. So much so that I’ve asked if they would co-host with me at this years Van Wine Fest.
Along with their third partner Maude Renaud- Brisson, who’s currently in Spain.
Kelcie and Jenna explain the courses and how it all came together. We also talk BC wine in general including  the state of BC wine heading into 2025.

BC Wine/Alberta wine fans.  –  Finally, a hug and a handshake.

Our guest is Paul Sawler.  Board Chair  BC Wine Growers & leadership at Dirty Laundry (Summerland)

Dirty Laundry Vineyard

BC wineries can now ship Direct-To-Consumer in Alberta!

Starting this week, BC wineries who register can sell into Alberta; report and make payment to AGLC for the wine products they sell directly to consumers in Alberta.

Paul Sawler

Alberta is a huge market for BC wineries, so it is about time that the AGLC caught up, to allow this mutually beneficial relationship.

Al Hudec and I advocated against Alberta’s blockade of BC wine one year ago. This is great news for BC wineries and growers.  Hello Alberta wine fans!!!
Paul Sawler takes us through the process that achieved this partnership.
It took top level government teams on both sides of the Alberta/BC border get this right.
We thank those involved and Paul and the board at Wine Growers for speaking on our behalf.

STORIES WE’RE WORKING ON

The Hatch
Van Wine Fest
Fort Berens
Victoria Whisky Festival
Hester Creek

EP 333 | Paul Sawler on BC Wines Now Direct to Alberta

January 11, 2025 Mulligan Stew Podcast

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BC Wine/Alberta wine fans.  –  Finally, a hug and a handshake.

Our guest is Paul Sawler.  Board Chair  BC Wine Growers & leadership at Dirty Laundry (Summerland)

Starting this week, BC wineries that register can sell directly to consumers in Alberta.

Alberta is a huge market for BC wineries, so it is about time that the AGLC caught up, to allow this mutually beneficial relationship.

 This is great news for BC wineries and growers.  Hello Alberta wine fans!!!

Paul Sawler takes us through the process that achieved this partnership.
It took top-level government teams on both sides of the Alberta/BC border get this right.
We thank those involved and Paul and the board at Wine Growers for speaking on our behalf.

Mulligan Stew Jan 11th 2024- I’m a King Bee. Music for your Saturday Night

January 11, 2025 Mulligan Stew

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Our thoughts are with families and friends fleeing from the fires close to Los Angeles.  One family we know had just finished rebuilding their 1925 Spanish-styled home just before Christmas. Now it’s gone. They’ll start again.
I’m starting this Stew with a salute to Slim Harpo, who was Born on January 11, 1924. He left many songs behind, but two were so outstanding that they get covered every year.
(One of the first songs the Rolling Stones ever recorded was I’m a King Bee.)
Anyway, those two songs were: I’m a King Bee and Baby, Scratch my Back.  There were lots of cover choices, but I decided to play Slim Harpo himself and Whitehorse.
 
 Neil Young has a place in this week’s Stew.
Winter Winds from his archives
k.d.lang sings After the Goldrush
The Byrds bring Cowgirl in the Sand
Six  live tracks in Hour Two 
A GREAT 10th Ave freeze out live by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band for Clarence Clemon’s birthday. “when the big man joined the band”
Dave Mathews Band – newly inducted into the Rock Hall
Kris Kristofferson at Bob Fest MS Garden NYC
Van Morrison  Madame George Live at Hollywood Bowl.
And The Stew ends with Little Feat and  two tracks from their brilliant live album Waiting for Columbus
New music  from
Leeroy Stagger
Bonny Light Horseman
Mickey Jupp
Suzanna Hoffs/Elvis Costello
Dan Mangan
Honey Bear, The Band
This week’s Stew is in memory of my Father.
HD (Pat) Mulligan

PLAYLIST:

Welcome to Mulligan Stew Terry David Mulligan The Stew on CKUA
I’m a King Bee Slim Harpo Best of
Baby, scratch my back Whitehorse The Northern South Vol 2
68 Dodge Dart Leeroy Stagger 3am Revelations
God and Johnny Walker Mickey Jupp Times like these
if you were mine Honeybear, the band if you were mine
The Stew with Terry Mulligan details mulliganstewdotca Next – new/old Neil Young
Winter Winds Neil Young Archives Vol 3
Deep in love Bonny Light Horsemen Bonny Light Horsemen
Yes, we can can Allen Toussaint Our New Orleans (expanded)
Down on the Corner CCR – a jam with Booker T Willy and the Poor Boys
Checking up on my baby Taj Mahal Taj Mahal
Deane House.River Cafe – Both On the Bow Coming Up – k.d. & The Byrds Sing Neil Playlist mulliganstewdotca
After the Goldrush k.d. lang Hymns of the 49th parallel
Cowgirl in the sand The Byrds The Byrds
Connection Suzanna Hoffs and Elvis Costello Connection
Nadine Chuck Berry Best of
Hour Two of the Stew with Terry Mulligan Bruce/Dave Mathews/Kris Kristofferson All LIVE and a bunch of Little Feat
10th Ave Freeze out (live) Bruce Springsteen and E St Band Live Series – Songs of New Jersey
So much to say (live) The Dave Mathews Band Live in Central Park
I’ll be your baby, tonight (live) Kris Kristofferson Bob Dylan – 30th Anniversary
Waiting in Vain Annie Lennox Medusa
Terry David Mulligan The Stew – Hour Two Coming Up – Van Morrison Live – Madame George
Don’t stop Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Madame George (live) Van Morrison Astral Weeks Live at Hollywood Bowl
Coyotes Banff – Thank You Coming up – Dan Mangan and lots of Live Little Feat
Shelter from the Storm Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Thank you for listening and donating Have a great weekend CKUA
Dixie Chicken (live) Little Feat Waiting for Columbus
Tripe Face Boogie (live) Little Feat Waiting for Columbus

EP 332 | The Return of Oscar Lopez

January 4, 2025 Mulligan Stew Podcast

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Welcome to 2025 all.
Our guest is Oscar Lopez. 2 time Juno winner. 10 albums were released. 
Nothing usual about the words above, except that for several years Oscar had disappeared!  From entertainment, media and life itself.
This interview is his way of explaining how he went from winning two Juno awards and walking onto stages with loving audiences to living in his car on the streets of Calgary.
Through tears,  Oscar talks about the dark years he’s been through.
Mental and alcohol battles. Second guessing himself.
With the help of his family members and an overflowing GoFundMe effort, he’s finally found the peace and strength to find a place to call home and return to the stage. Jan 17/18 at La Bodeguita Stereo in Calgary

January 4th 2025-Author Luke Whittall and his Sipster’s 3 Pocket Guide

January 4, 2025 Tasting Room Radio 0:48:42

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Look who’s on a Roll – It’s this week’s guest,  Author Luke Whittall

 

Luke and his Sipster’s Pocket Guides Books.

In the third volume in the popular  Sipster’s Pocket Guide series, wine expert and educator Luke Whittall presents his latest top 50 British Columbia wines under $50 (including many under $30) and along the way shares his thoughts on wine country and common misconceptions about certain grapes, and offers up tangents on everything from scented candles to middle children to jazz hands.

With food and activity pairings that range from Thai noodles and pool noodles to classic rock and hootenannies, and an index of attitudes that lets you choose a wine based on your mood (come hither, dressed to kill, razzle-dazzle), the Sipster’s guides are equal parts freewheeling and focused.

 

Divided into chapters on sparkling, white, rosé, red, and dessert wines, the latest volume of Sipster’s will snap you out of a catatonic funk in the liquor store and stick around for a quiet evening paging through a book—perhaps this book and perhaps there’s even a wine for that.

Welcome to Volume 3, where a Viognier can be a lot like a bouncy castle, a red blend that is the icing on top of another layer of icing and also  a wine that will upstage Taylor Swift and Kayne and an adventurous evening calls for a certain Trebianno (not the guy from Friends . . . but then again, maybe?).

The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 More Must-Try BC Wines: Volume 3

The Sipsters series are written in a language anyone can understand. Words we all use and can remember a day later.

Make no mistake, Luke knows his wines from the vineyards to the bottle. He just makes the journey much easier than it really is.

 

We also start TRR with a conversation about vineyard damage & recovery,   plus the coming discovery of BC Wines made with Washington grapes.

So those damaged vineyards, wineries and wine-farming families can survive the next couple of years.

 

And heads UP – The Sipster’s Ontario Vol 2 is coming – 

 

Then surely, the Luke Whittall film starring Ryan Reynolds. 

www.sipsterswinepodcast.ca/books 

 

Luke Whittall

Online:

The Sipster’s Wine Podcast – Sipsters Icons on Substack   WWW.

 

Books:

“The Sipster’s Pocket Guide to 50 More Must-Try BC Wines, Volume 3″ 2024 (Touchwood Editions)

“The Sipster’s Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try Ontario Wines, Volume 1″ 2023 (Touchwood Editions)

“The Sipster’s Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines, Volume 2″ 2023 (Touchwood Editions)

“The Sipster’s Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC Wines, Volume 1″ 2021 (Touchwood Editions)

“The Okanagan Wine Tour Guide” 6th Edition (with John Schreiner) 2020 (Touchwood Editions)

“Valleys of Wine: A Taste of British Columbia’s Wine History” 2019 (Whitecap Books)

 

STORIES WE’RE WORKING ON

Vancouver Wine Festival

This is Wine School

Hester Creek

Fort Berens

The Hatch

Ruby Blues

etc

 

 

 

Mulligan Stew Jan 4th 2024-Special Guest, Oscar Lopez

January 4, 2025 Mulligan Stew

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Welcome to 2025 all.
Our guest is Oscar Lopez. 2 time Juno winner. 10 albums released. 
Nothing usual about the words above, except that for several years Oscar had disappeared!  From entertainment, media and life itself.
This interview is his way of explaining how he went from winning two Juno awards and walking onto stages with loving audiences to living in his car on the streets of Calgary.

Through tears,  Oscar talks about the dark years he’s been through.
Mental and alcohol battles. Second guessing himself.

Oscar Lopez

With the help of his family members and an overflowing GoFundMe effort, he’s finally found the peace and strength to find a place to call home and return to the stage. Jan 17/18 at La Bodeguita Stereo in Calgary
 
The complete Oscar Lopez story can be heard on the Mulligan Stew podcast and TerryDavidMulligan YouTube channel. 

 

PLAYLIST:

Mulligan Stew – Guest Oscar Lopez Terry David Mulligan mulliganstewdotca
Pity the Fool (live) Tedeschi Trucks Band Let me get by (deluxe)
God and Johnny Walker Micky Jupp Times like these
Gasoline and matches Buddy and Julie Miller Written in chalk
Some kinda nerve Madeleine Roger NERVE
Little Wing Stevie Ray Vaughn Archives
The Stew – The Guest: Oscar Lopez Coming UP – Gord’s Gold and Leo Kottke TDM
Cold on the shoulder Gordon Lightfoot Gord’s Gold
World Turning Leo Kottke World Turning
Suite Judy Blue Eyes (live) CSN and Young Live at Fillmore 1969
Deane House – River Cafe Tonight’s Guest – Oscar Lopez Next – The Killer – Fats-The Georgia Peach
Who will the next fool be (live) Jerry Lee Lewis The Killer Live 64-70
Rip it up Little Richard Best of
Ain’t that a shame Fats Domino Essential
Mulligan Stew Year 29 coming up – Kansas City and The Hip CKUA
Kansas City Wilbert Harrison Kansas City
Boots or hearts The Tragically Hip Up to here (deluxe)
Mulligan Stew Year 29 Guest in Hour Two – Oscar Lopez TDMulligan
Bring this song Stephen Fearing The Empathist
Sometimes I wonder T Bone Burnett (Colin Linden) The Other Side
This hearts my heavy load Tom Wilson Tehohahke
Stop and listen Blackie and the Rodeo Kings O Glory
Bluephoria Larkin Poe Little Bit
Coyotes Banff Coming Up – Oscar Lopez Interview Next – the original Fleetwood Mac and Bob and The Band
Stop messing around Fleetwood Mac Vintage Years 64- The History of FM
Highway 61 (live) MSG NYC Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Live Recordings
Next – Oscar Lopez Mulligan Stew mulliganstewdotca
Oscar Lopez Interview with Terry David Mulligan Welcome back Oscar
Armando’s Fire Oscar Lopez Flashback
Oscar Lopez Interview with Terry Mulligan Talking about his new life
The Hard Road Oscar Lopez My Destiny
Oscar Lopez – The Comeback Complete Interview on Mulligan Stew Podcast Video interview on TDM YouTube Channel
Forgive me Oscar Lopez Flashback
Please support Oscar Lopez if you can His Calgary dates on MulliganStewdotca and ckua.com
Sweet Happy Life Peggy Lee Guitars a la Lee
Can’t take that away from me Molly Johnson Because of Billie
Fever Ray Charles – Natalie Cole Genius loves company

 

Mulligan Stew Dec 28th 2024- The Year End Stew. 12 guests from 2024

December 28, 2024 Mulligan Stew

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I hope you had a Happy Holiday.
Now comes year-end and “the Eve”.
I couldn’t get them all in but Saturday’s Year End Stew features 12 clips from 2024 guest interviews.
Most are a minute or so but they all have strong comments.

Kris Kristopherson  –  Wonderful  singer/songwriter. Even better man.
Drummer Russ Kunkel – a living history of popular music.
Bridget Kearney – Lake Street Dive
Blue Rodeo – Greg and Jim on songwriting Hall of Fame induction
Adrian Sutherland. – Speaking for his James Bay Cree.
Rhiannon Giddens – at Edmonton Folk Fest.
Robert Finley – Blues Elder is at the same festival.
Corb Lund – El Viejo
Blue Moon Marquee – how they found their sound in Montreal.
Colin James – taking ownership of his career.
Bahamas – Afie talks Bootcut
Madeline Roger – how she and The Fretless connected.

Enjoy my friends.
It’s a journey !!
Happy New Year to y’all

-TDM

PLAYLIST:

The Year End Mulligan Stew Revisiting 12 Interview guests from 2024 CKUA Radio
While my guitar gently weeps The Beatles The White Album
The Year End Stew A Dozen Interview guests from 2024 NEXT – Corb Lund
Beast of Burden The Rolling Stones Some Girls
Got to be you The Bros. Landreth for you, live
Corb Lund clip with TDMulligan Coming UP -Blue Moon Marquee
El Viejo Corb Lund El Viejo
The Year End Stew featuring Interview guests from 2024 Coming UP – Garth Hudson and Neil Young
This wheels on fire Garth Hudson, Neil Young & Sadies Garth Hudson Presents A Canadian Celebration. The Band (10th Ann)
Blue Moon Marquee Interview Al Cardinal and Jasmine Colette Osbourne Bay Pub – Crofton, Van Island
Black Rat Swing Blue Moon Marquee New Orleans Sessions
Deane House & River Cafe NY Eve Colin James Interview The Year End Stew
Protection Colin James and Lucinda Williams Chasing The Sun
Afie Jurvanen Bahamas Interview The Year End Stew
Gone Girl Gone Bahamas Bootcut
Madeleine Roger Interview The Year End Stew TDMulligan
Some Kinda NERVE Madeleine Roger NERVE
The Year End Stew Revisiting 12 Interview guests from 2024 from our year 2024
Hand Jive Johnny Otis Hand Jive
The Year End Stew Revisiting 12 Interview guests from 2024 Up next Kris Kristopherson
Kris Kristopherson Interview A Calgary Folk Festival Talking Songwriting
I’ll be your baby, tonight (live) Kris Kristopherson Bob Dylan (30th Ann. Concert) NYC
Blowing in the Wind (live) Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (30th Ann. Concert) NYC
Russ Kunkle Interview Talking Joni, Carole, James and Dylan A drummer’s drummer
Fire and Rain (live) Carole King and James Taylor CK & JT Live at Troubadour
Bridget Kearney Interview Lake Street Dive sings, writes, plays a fine bass & dances
Dance with a stranger Laker Street Dive Good Together
Revisiting 12 Interview guests from 2024 Coming UP – Greg and Jim from Blue Rodeo on Songwriters Hall of Fame
Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy Blue Rodeo on Songwriters Hall
Head over heels (live) Blue Rodeo Live at Massey Hall
The Year End Stew Revisiting 12 Interview guests from 2024 Next – Adrian Sutherland
Adrian Sutherland -James Bay Cree Interview from 2024 with TDMulligan
Let it Shine Adrian Sutherland Precious Diamonds
Coyotes Banff – Supporting CKUA Over 25 years Rhiannon Giddens Interview At Edmonton Folk Festival
Freedom Highway Rhiannon Giddens (Bhi Bhiman) Freedom Highway
Robert Finley Interview Live at Edmonton Folk Fest Louisiana Bluesman
What goes around, comes around Robert Finley Black Bayou
Hide Away Freddie King Texas Sensation
Thank you for listening to THE STEW Happy New Year Please support CKUA in 2025
Unfaithful Servant The Band (Rick Danko sings) The Band
Back in the USSR The Beatles White Album

EP 332 | Hallelujah. Leonard Cohen. A Journey – A song

December 28, 2024 Mulligan Stew Podcast

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It’s not just the life of Leonard Cohen.  It’s the life of his song,  Hallelujah.

When he released it on the album  Various Positions, his label in the USA,  Columbia Records, refused to release it.  It never got played and was almost forgotten…until John Cale recorded it for the tribute album I’m Your Fan and it began a life of its own. The song passed from Bob Dylan to Cale, to Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, kdlang and the  Shrek Soundtrack. Now, it’s legendary.

With Fame comes The Lame. Various singers have crushed the life out of Hallelujah in TV Talent shows. Some crediting the song to Jeff Buckley without knowing that Cohen lived it and wrote it.

Leonard wrote 130-150 verses for the song. Took him many  years. At times made him lose his famous cool.

Hallelujah started as a spiritual journey. With various Leonard rewrites it became a secular,  sexy anthem. Before and after it was released to the World, the song took on a life of its own.

Post Shrek, Hallelujah took Leonard Cohen to audiences all over the World. It’s a heartfelt film that captures the brilliance of Leonard Cohen and the song.

The film was released in 2022.

This is smashing filmmaking and epic storytelling.

The directors are Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine.

Dan Geller said “the real focus is Leonard the man asking the deep questions about the purpose of life, the challenges of life, the holiness of life, and the brokenness of life”

https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/hallelujah/

As we sat down Dan said – It’s only about one song but we managed to fit in 22 Cohen songs.

Available for screening on Netflix, Hulu, Crave, and Apple. MUNI

 

 

 

 

December 28th 2024- Complete Interview with Anthony Gismondi: Co-founder of 2024 The Nationals!

December 27, 2024 Tasting Room Radio 0:39:18

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Complete  Interview with Anthony Gismondi: Co-founder of The Nationals!

 

THE SHOW

 

The 2024 National Wine Awards of Canada wrapped up in June in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Founded by Canadian wine experts David Lawrason and Anthony Gismondi, ‘The Nationals’ are the largest and most respected Canadian wine competition.

This year,  22 judges tasted 1,800 entries from 230 wineries. Canadian wine is indeed gathering acclaim internationally, but ‘The Nationals’ is the most important peer competition local wineries can enter. With nearly every producer of note in the country competing, making it to the top ten of any category list is special.

Getting on the annual list of the Top 25 Wineries in Canada is one of the most sought accolades in the business.

The Judges

The entries came from seven provinces. British Columbia had the highest representation with 147 wineries entered, Ontario came second with 84, followed by wineries from Quebec, Nova Scotia, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.

The finale, the Top 25 Wineries of the Year list, has become an all-out race we look forward to every year and one warmly received by consumers looking for an edge when shopping for top Canadian wine. Each year has its rhythms, and 2024 was no different. Less winemaking and more of that elusive terroir/site/origin was making its way into the top-scoring wines, something eminently satisfying for the judges tasked with finding the best in the country. Every medal is hard fought for at the national level and should signal consumers that something good is going on at the recipient wineries. Our goal has always been to award medals that mean something in a crowded retail market, and we couldn’t be prouder of this year’s collection.” Co-Chair, Anthony Gismondi, Gismondi on Wine

I look forward to connecting  with Tony each and every time. So much to talk about.

Anthony Gismondi

He is, after all, the perfect guest. I just ask the questions and get out of the way.

 

The master link for the final results is included below.  Perhaps pour yourself something: a morning coffee or an afternoon platinum rose (yes, that actually happened) and follow along.

Its an amazing read.  Congratulations to Anthony and David, their volunteers and staff, the judges and especially the wineries of Canada.

 

https://www.winealign.com/awards/2024/07/23/2024-nwac-results/

and to the Winery of the Year – Grant Stanley GM and Winemaker

https://www.winealign.com/articles/2024/07/24/results-from-the-2024-nationals-winery-of-the-year/

 

Enjoy!!  Onward to whatever 2025 brings.

 

STORIES WE’RE WORKING ON:

 

The Hatch

Canadian Whisky Awards

Hester Creek

Van Wine Fest

Fort Berens

Ruby Blues

etc

 

 

 

 

EP 331 | Trans Canada Christmas Vol.1

December 21, 2024 Mulligan Stew Podcast

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It’s our first-ever Trans Canada Christmas – starring the Trans Canada Highwaymen.
Steven Page – BNLadies and Steven Page Trio
Moe Berg – Pursuit of Happiness
Craig Northey – Odds and Steven Page Trio
Chris Murphy – Sloan
They are great friends, each with his band and career.
What they have in common is a sense of the music they grew up with and a welcome sense of humour.
These Christmas sessions began in the ’70s at CBC Vancouver with Producer Susan Englebert: Shari Ulrich, Valdy, Terry Frewer, Roy Forbes, and several guests.
5-6 years of gathering around a series of microphones, playing Christmas songs and telling Christmas stories. Such fun.
Sadly, we lost our friend Susan to cancer and the Christmas show to time itself.
The concept returned at Roundhouse Radio in Vancouver in 2015 and we enjoyed three years of Christmas in the Round with Barney Bentall and his assorted friends.
We’ve played all three years on past Christmas Stews.
Now comes CKUA’s turn to host the same tradition.
Each Highwayman brings a Christmas song and stories of past Christmas tales.
5 songs in total. Craig Northey’s was co-written with Brent Butt of Corner Gas. Steven’s is about cheese logs. Chris’s is about kids coming home and Moe’s is the Christmas Classic Mistletoe and Holly.  They finish with Do they know it’s Christmas.
 
Thank you to Arianne, Duke, Jasmine, and Bren for their production skills in bringing this show to air. Amazing work. And to Corey Wood for his skills and friendship in the edit and graphic studio here on Vancouver Island.