The lush Okanagan Valley is internationally acclaimed for its wines. John Schreiner's Okanagan Wine Tour Guide, completely updated, reflects the most recent changes in the region's wine industry and provides succinct insider profiles of the more than 150 wineries in the Okanagan.
The Okanagan Valley produces 95 percent of British Columbia's wines. This comprehensive guide features thumbnail sketches of wineries and winemakers and is peppered with fascinating facts about the region, drawn from Schreiner's own winery visits. Also included are Schreiner's recommendations for what to sample from each cellar.
All the information you need to take a self-guided tour of the wine regions is here. "Geography for Wine Tourists," a chapter on the many Okanagan wine regions and the wineries to be found in them, has been expanded to include new wineries and a new region, the Thompson River Valley. Also included is a detailed map of the Okanagan, with all the wineries marked, as well as addresses, telephone numbers, and website addresses for each winery.

Born in 1935, John Schreiner grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan and received his B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan. He worked at the Regina Leader-Post and became the paper`s chief reporter in the Saskatchewan Legislature. He joined the Financial Post (now the National Post) in 1961 and worked in the Montreal bureau before becoming the Vancouver bureau chief in 1973. He won the 1996 Jack Webster Award for Economic Journalism. He retired in 2001. His fifth book, Icewines, won the Best Book on Wine History Published in English prize at the 2001 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Schreiner, who writes for Wine Access, is a graduate of the German Wine Academy and lives in North Vancouver with his wife Marlene.

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