The Seagram Museum

Dean Tudor is a journalism professor at the Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute and founding editor of the CBRA.

This is a slight but extremely useful guidebook to the Seagram Museum
(of wines and spirits), which is currently on the site of an original
distillery in Waterloo, Ontario. The Museum opened in 1984 as an
expanded version of the Wine Museum of San Francisco (acquired when
Seagram bought its owner, a California winery). The Waterloo building is
a restored barrel warehouse, with high, open areas and cutaway
walls—truly a spectacular place.

The text deals with fermentation, cooperage, types of liquors, types of
wines, and how bottles and corks are made, and goes on to detail the
corkscrew and the drinking glass. Library and archival materials are
listed, and there is a brief history of the Seagram Company. The book is
illustrated with photographs of the museum exhibits as well as with
historical etchings and photographs.