Canadian Wine For Dummies http://www.nd-warez.info/ http://www.directtextbook.com/9781894413183/1894413180 http://www.nd-warez.info/ Canadian Wine•Prelims-p.i-xxiv:Canadian Wine•Prelims/p.i-xxiv 6/24/09 2:25 PM Page iv Canadian Wine•Prelims-p.i-xxiv:Canadian Wine•Prelims/p.i-xxiv 6/24/09 2:25 PM Page iii Praise for Tony Aspler “Everyone learns about wine in his or her own way. Tony’s way has been…extremely human; richly mixed with real life, literary life, incident and accident in some unexpected parts of the world . Tony Aspler is one of the frankest and funniest…” — Hugh Johnson “It’s always a happy circumstance when somebody who knows a subject can also bring that expertise alive with good writing.” — Ottawa Citizen “[Tony Aspler] is the wine expert’s Canadian wine expert. Aspler is the drinking companion we’d all like to invite ‘down to the cellar’.” — Eye Weekly (Toronto) Praise for Vintage Canada “. a masterful cross-Canada survey of wineries . .” — The Toronto Sun “. Superb.” — The Montreal Gazette Praise for Tony Aspler’s Wine Lover’s Companion “Outstanding! . 37 years as a wine judge and I learned something new in each chapter.” — David G. Male, President, InterVin International “Only a handful of writers . combine authoritative knowledge . with an easy-reading, fluid style. Tony Aspler is one of them. The Wine Lover’s Companion makes for delightful reading, and yet is an authentic wine reference. Well done!” — Ed McCarthy, Wine For Dummies® “. full of information that presupposed nothing, and explains simply, without pretension.” — The Globe and Mail Canadian Wine•Prelims-p.i-xxiv:Canadian Wine•Prelims/p.i-xxiv 6/24/09 2:25 PM Page iv Canadian Wine•Prelims-p.i-xxiv:Canadian Wine•Prelims/p.i-xxiv 6/24/09 2:25 PM Page v Canadian Wine by Tony Aspler and Barbara Leslie Canadian Wine•Prelims-p.i-xxiv:Canadian Wine•Prelims/p.i-xxiv 6/24/09 2:25 PM Page vi Canadian Wine For Dummies® Published by John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. 6045 Freemont Boulevard Mississauga, Ontario, L5R 4J3 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2000 by John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this book, including interior design, cover design, and icons, may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means (electronic, photocopying, record- ing, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher. 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Canadian Wine•Prelims-p.i-xxiv:Canadian Wine•Prelims/p.i-xxiv 6/24/09 2:25 PM Page vii About the Authors Tony Aspler is the most widely read wine writer in Canada. He is recognized as the leading authority on Canadian wines and is the creator of the annual Air Ontario Wine Awards competition. Author of Travels with My Corkscrew, Vintage Canada, Tony Aspler’s Wine Lover’s Companion, and many other books on wine and food, Tony is the wine columnist for the Toronto Star. He has also published nine novels, including a series of wine lover’s mysteries featuring wine writer-detective Ezra Brant. Tony is on the advisory board of Masters of Wine (North America) and is co-founder of the charitable foundation Grapes for Humanity. Barbara Leslie lucked into one of the world’s greatest jobs working for Winetidings, Canada’s oldest continually published wine magazine. Over the course of a 15-year career with the magazine, she did just about everything from tasting wine, to writing and editing, to typesetting and layout. When she retired from the Winetidings staff in 1999, she held the title of publisher. Barbara is currently pursuing her freelance career in the Niagara Peninsula, where she lives around the corner from of some of Canada’s greatest wineries. Barbara grew up in Montréal and studied at McGill University, where she majored in Italian. This was quite helpful when she guided a group of wine lovers through the vineyards of northern Italy on behalf of the Opimian Society. She has also led a number of tastings and introductory wine seminars, albeit in English and French. She has yet to lead one in Italian, but she’s working on it! Barbara has known and worked with Tony Aspler for many years. She shares both Tony’s appreciation of wine and his affection for cats. Canadian Wine•Prelims-p.i-xxiv:Canadian Wine•Prelims/p.i-xxiv 6/24/09 2:25 PM Page viii Canadian Wine•Prelims-p.i-xxiv:Canadian Wine•Prelims/p.i-xxiv 6/24/09 2:25 PM Page ix Dedication Tony Aspler dedicates this book to his friend and colleague Jacques Marie, whose love of wine has communicated itself to thousands of Canadians over some 30 years of education. Barbara Leslie dedicates this book to Mike Blakely, her son and arbiter of good taste. Authors’ Acknowledgements Writing a wine book of this nature is a co-operative effort. We did not simply sit in front of our word processors and bash it all out from memory. We relied on the expertise, experience, and good nature of dozens of people in all areas of Canadian wine — from the winemakers themselves to the organizations and institutions that support them, the liquor boards who purvey their products, and the hospitality industry that serves Canadian wines in their restaurants. Special thanks to the Wine Council of Ontario, who patiently answered all our inquiries, in spite of our endless requests for background on the newest wineries right up to press time, as we strove to keep the information as fresh and lively as the wines it represents. Thanks to VQA Canada, and both its arms in British Columbia and Ontario for their generous help whenever we asked — which was frequently. We would be remiss if we did not single out certain individuals who gave freely of their time and advice: Dave Gamble, Publisher/Editor of BC Wine Trails, wine writers Tim Pawsey in Vancouver and Linda Bramble in St. Catharines, Ontario. Once we had the raw data, we had to put it into a unique form, unlike any other wine book we had written. Guiding us through the technique and the technology were Joan Whitman and Melanie Rutledge at CDG Books in Toronto. They kept us in the information highway’s fast lane in spite of ourselves. Thank you both for your support and for having the vision to see that this was a book that would introduce a whole new generation to the fascinating world of Canadian wine. We would also like to thank our agent, Dean Cooke, of Livingston Cooke, who cosseted us through the project and showed us there was light at the end of the information tunnel. Lastly, we’d like to thank you for buying this book. It may not be the only wine book you will ever purchase, but it will be the only one that gives you a comprehensive view of Canadian wine, the people who make it, and its place in the global scheme of things. Cheers! Canadian Wine•Prelims-p.i-xxiv:Canadian Wine•Prelims/p.i-xxiv 6/24/09 2:25 PM Page x Publisher’s Acknowledgments We’re proud of this book; please send us your comments at [email protected].