The wine world comes to Vancouver

By: ANTHONY GISMONDI
Published:  March 20, 2009

VANCOUVER - The wine world is in Vancouver this week for the 31st Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival and there will be plenty of discussion about the economy. With almost every wine producing country in the midst of its worst economic downturn in decades, wine sales are under considerable strain and the worst is yet to come.

Producers are here to figure out the big question: What will you be buying and at what price? We will all know more in a week. As it stands today, the festival is 89 per cent sold out with only a handful of seats left to an assortment of events, so take another bow Vancouver.