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Winc/Atticus a California red blend

Lost Poet: bold, earthy

Wine: Lost Poet (red blend), 2017

Winery: Winc / Atticus

Why drink it? The story behind this bottle: Atticus is a masked Instagram poet (Instagram @atticuspoetry), with a love of wine and a New York Times best seller, The Truth About Magic (read about the book here: /news/Okanagan-Taste/272862/Books-and-beverages), and now his own blend made with a winemaker; the grapes are from California. Lost Poet, complete with a random selection of poems on the back label, is a blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot, and syrah. On the nose, it’s bold, even before pouring it on a glass – earthy, with cherry notes that soften in a few minutes. The palate is straightforward with red berries and mushrooms, with a bit of nutmeg and pomegranate.

Price: $17 USD / $20 CAD

Pair with: You might be able to source the wine in Ontario now, B.C. for the next vintage perhaps. If you have an aspiring writer in the house, a bottle and a copy of the book will pair nicely with scrolling through Instagram on an evening when the couch is calling and you need some inspiration.

Music pairing: Moral of the Story, Ashe



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About the Author

As a kid, Shelley Boettcher often found herself in the back seat of a pick-up, exploring the back roads of the Okanagan Valley with her parents. They’d occasionally leave her and her brother in the car while they stopped at mysterious addresses to buy wine. They would emerge, clearly happy, as they stuck a box or a few bottles in the vehicle. Then they would continue on their journey.

But it wasn’t until a trip to Spain in 2000 that Shelley herself fell in love with wine. She came home from the holiday and promptly told her editor she wanted to become a wine writer.

And she did. 

An award-winning food and wine writer and editor, Shelley holds her master’s degree in journalism and her advanced WSET certification, as well as her level 2 International Sommelier Guild certification. A wine columnist for the Calgary Herald, she spent a decade as CBC Radio’s national syndicated wine columnist and she has written three books about wine, including two that were Canadian bestsellers. Her byline has appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world, including the New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and Postmedia newspapers across Canada. 

Shelley has travelled throughout many of the world’s wine regions and countries, including Niagara, Oregon, Washington, California, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Australia, Germany, Argentina and the Republic of Georgia. A few years ago, she even tracked down and visited a winery in Denmark. 

Shelley has also served as a professional wine judge regionally and internationally, including the Okanagan Wine Festivals, Vinitaly and the Chianti Classico Consortium. For more than a decade, she has been a restaurant wine list judge for the Vancouver International Wine Festival, too. She still teases her parents for sparking her love for wine, especially BC wine.

And her favourite? Whatever she's drinking at the moment.

You can follow Shelley on Instagram @shelleyboettcher or Twitter at @shelley_wine. 

If you have a BC wine you’d like to suggest, email Shelley at [email protected] with the name of the wine and a short note about why you enjoyed it. 

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