Stemming from the beautiful lie of terroir – the concept that time, place and human endeavour can be expressed in a vintage bottle of wine – this book examines how the relatively shallow history of colonial agricultural settlement in British Columbia is encapsulated in its people. The work allows for the consideration of our bodies as vessels of myth, history, lies, desire and geography.
ISBN 978-0-9950442-0-3
9″x6″ paperback, 278 pages
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Reviews
David McIntosh’s Terroir Tour of British Columbia (Battery Opera Books, 2016).
A totally engrossing investigation into the concept of terroir as it relates to the colonial landscape, performance artist/somellier David McIntosh looks at the ugly and racist economic history of BC’s extraction industry through the genuinely enthusiastic lens of a wine buff, moving from vineyard to vineyard, framing personal narratives of resource workers, travel notes and family history between frothy promotional winery literature and blackly funny tasting notes. Prose poetry meets local history meets booze. “Eccentric composition but compulsively readable with acrid undertones”: my fake somellier-speak review, were it bottled instead of bound.
– Scout Magazine
A video of readers reading tasting notes from the book can be found here.