Oct 21, 2024
Look who's on a Roll - It's this week's guest,
Author Luke Whittall
Luke and his Sipster's Pocket Guides
Books.
In the third volume in the popular Sipster’s Pocket
Guide series, wine expert and educator Luke
Whittall presents his latest top 50 British Columbia
wines under $50 (including many under $30) and along the way shares
his thoughts on wine country and common misconceptions about
certain grapes, and offers up tangents on everything from scented
candles to middle children to jazz hands.
With food and activity pairings that range from Thai noodles
and pool noodles to classic rock and hootenannies, and an index of
attitudes that lets you choose a wine based on your mood (come
hither, dressed to kill, razzle-dazzle), the Sipster’s guides are
equal parts freewheeling and focused.
Divided into chapters on sparkling, white, rosé, red, and
dessert wines, the latest volume
of Sipster’s will snap you out of a catatonic
funk in the liquor store and stick around for a quiet evening
paging through a book—perhaps this book and perhaps there’s even a
wine for that.
Welcome to Volume 3, where a Viognier can be
a lot like a bouncy castle, a red blend that is the icing on top of
another layer of icing and also a wine that will upstage
Taylor Swift and Kayne and an adventurous evening calls for a
certain Trebianno (not the guy from Friends . .
. but then again, maybe?).
The Sipsters series are written in language anyone can
understand. Words we all use and can remember a day later.
Make no mistake, Luke knows his wines from the vineyards to
the bottle. He just makes the journey much easier than it really
is.
We also start TRR with a conversation about vineyard damage &
recovery, plus the coming discovery of BC Wines made
with Washington grapes.
So those damaged vineyards, wineries and wine-farming families
can survive the next couple of years.
And heads UP - The Sipster's Ontario Vol
2 is coming - just in time for Christmas.
Then surely, the Luke Whittall film starring Ryan
Reynolds.
Luke Whittall
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Books:
"The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 More Must-Try
BC Wines, Volume 3" 2024 (Touchwood Editions)
"The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try
Ontario Wines, Volume 1" 2023 (Touchwood Editions)
"The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC
Wines, Volume 2" 2023 (Touchwood Editions)
"The Sipster's Pocket Guide to 50 Must-Try BC
Wines, Volume 1" 2021 (Touchwood Editions)
"The Okanagan Wine Tour Guide" 6th
Edition (with John Schreiner) 2020 (Touchwood
Editions)
"Valleys of Wine: A Taste of British Columbia's Wine
History" 2019 (Whitecap Books)