Icon: Flagship Wines from BC's Best Wineries

(Hardback)

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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 winerys entire portfolio. Icon wines are made with a winerys 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 BCs best wineriesand 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 wines 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 Schreiners passion and unique contribution to BCs wine region.

Reviews

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.

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

Author Bio

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.