Icon: Flagship Wines from BC's Best Wineries - Hardcover

Schreiner, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1771512075 ISBN 13: 9781771512077

Publisher: Touchwood Editions, 2017

Synopsis

Winner of a Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best New World Wine book in English Canada

An icon wine is the very best wine that a producer can make. It truly is the rising tide that lifts all boats, in the sense that the prestige of an icon wine cascades across a winery’s entire portfolio. Icon wines are made with a winery’s best grapes, and are aged in the winery’ s finest and most expensive barrels. They are aged another several years in bottle before release, and production volumes are often limited.

British Columbia has a thriving and exciting wine industry that attracts winemakers from across the globe, and has brought global acclaim to local vintners. It now has a such an array of high-calibre winemakers that John Schreiner has compiled a book showcasing the icon wines from BC’s best wineries and the region itself.

For each wine profiled, readers will learn the behind-the-scenes story of the winery and winemaker, as well as the history, provenance, and inspiration behind each wine. The available vintage is listed along with detailed tasting notes, information on number of cases produced, percentages of varietals in the case of blends, and even clone number of particular varietals.

Schreiner emphasizes that there is no better way to understand a wine than to assemble vertical tastings, or five or more vintages of the same wine. Vertical wine tasting allows one to drill down to a wine’s essentials, and demonstrates how a wine can vary from year to year due to weather, variation in style of winemaking, and other factors.

Not only is this book the essential guide for any collector of BC wine, but it is also a culmination of research that illuminates John Schreiner’s passion and unique contribution to BC’s wine region.

About this title

About the Author:

The best-selling author of fifteen books, John Schreiner is Canada's most respected and prolific wine writer. He is a celebrated member of both national and regional wine communities across Canada and has judged in wine competitions in North America and abroad. He lives in Vancouver.

Review:

"Schreiner's book sorts out the very best." --Anthony Gismondi, Vancouver Sun--Anthony Gismondi"Vancouver Sun" (04/07/2017)

BC wine fans love John Schreiner. He's always been there for us. With the explosive growth of BC wines, he has paved the way for our all-important next step: how to choose and cellar the best of those wines, the icons.

-- (03/01/2017)

If you want a quick primer on BC's best labels while supporting a Canadian wine treasure, John Schreiner himself, this is it.

-- (05/02/2017)

"This is a significant work that clearly proves not only that British Columbia's wine has come of age, but also that there is a worthy story to tell. This is a book that will look equally good on the coffee table, as it would be wine-stained and well loved near your cellar." --Culinaire-- (09/01/2017)

"This topical 320 page tome perfectly captures the growing global respect for the special wines coming out of British Columbia. . . . The organized notes by trained journalist John Schreiner . . . are always so well researched and eruditely expressed. This adds enormously to the readability and easy reference of his latest admirable work all set out alphabetically by winery name. . . . You need this volume to be informed on this exciting unique wine region that has emerged and you will also enjoy reading it!" --International Wine & Food Society-- (12/06/2017)

Deb McVittie of 32 Books suggests Icon as a must-read the holiday season on CBC's North by Northwest.--North by Northwest (09/12/2017)

"A highly informative and palate-readying read . . . a great gift for wine lovers, especially those with cellars full of the local stuff." --Scout magazine-- (12/21/2017)

"[In] the U.S. market . . . B.C. wines are mainly represented by Ice Wine. If you want to know what else B.C. has to offer you pretty much have to go to the source. This volume just might be the nudge you need to book that ticket!" --The Wine Economist blog-- (07/11/2017)

"The hard-cover, colour book is a must-have for the British Columbia wine lover or anyone wanting to learn more about this region. Each wine is accompanied by a colour image of the bottle so you can easily identify them on the store shelf. It's a very well-laid out book." --Wine Adventures blog-- (05/30/2017)

About this edition

• Publisher: Touchwood Editions
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1771512075
• ISBN 13: 9781771512077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 332