Terroir Terror Tours of British Columbia
(2013-2019)

David McIntosh

Based on the beautiful lie of "terroir" – the concept that time, place and human endeavor can be expressed in a vintage bottle of wine – this project examined how the relatively shallow history of colonial agricultural settlement in this province might be encapsulated in its people. Taking advantage of McIntosh’s training as a sommelier by working and drinking both alone and with the people he meets within the terroir of bc – including fellow traveler artists Chris Bose, Aryo Khakpour, Arash Khakpour, and structures like Eco Art Incubator and TRU. This long-term project addressed settler relationships to indigenous territory through the prism of agriculture, resource extraction and alcohol.

Research for Terroir has been supported by a residency at the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada (CICACC) at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, and by the visiting artist program at The University of British Columbia Okanagan, in Kelowna.

David McIntosh’s Terroir Tour of British Columbia, the book derived from this project, can be found here.

Photos by Khakpours and Sophia Wolfe.