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About Alice Feiring
The short answer is that you’ll get delicious wine recommendations and inside info on everything you need to think about and know about when it comes to natural and authentic wine. The information comes weekly and in spurts, but the posts are regular.
If you’re a free subscriber you’ll get teasers and the free column, “What would I drink, what would you drink,” which goes over wine lists from around the world for my picks. Some are easy and some are tough! If you are a yearly paid subscriber, you’ll have full access to my website, The Feiring Line. Just make sure you let me know you want it so I can make that happen for you!
And now for the long story about me.
I’ve been known for my independence and if you know the backstory of why things get written and recommended, that should go a long way.
They’ve called me controversial and feisty but whatever, the fact is that I do find myself leading the international debate on wine made naturally. I found my métier in 2001 when I wrote an award-winning article for the New York Times, “For Better or Worse, Winemakers Go High Tech.” Through researching the topic I uncovered a world of flavor- and aroma-changing additives. “Fraud,” I cried, “Give me my wine back!” And then I went to work.
I have helped to define “natural,” uncovered the abuses of ubiquitous terms like “organic” and provoked readers to share my concerns and passions. Approaching wine from the ground up, I try to work much like an anthropologist to respect and preserve what is indigenous to wines and their traditions. From the ancient vines of the Canary Islands to the qvevris of Georgia, I am attracted to simple, effective century-old practices. I identify wine that unlocks culture and heritage, methods that reflect and relate human stories.
An early attention-getting blogger (2004), in 2008, I wrote The Battle for Wine and Love: Or How I Saved the World From Parkerization. It worked. Don’t you think?
I followed that up with Naked Wine in 2011, a narrative romp through the history and the personalities of vin naturel. In short? It’s about the natural wine. You need to read it. Then in 2016 came the immersion into Georgian wine with For the Love of Wine; my odyssey through the world’s most ancient wine culture. In 2017 the subsoils of the vineyard got elevated in The Dirty Wine Guide, written with the help of Ms. Pascaline Lepeltier, Master Sommelier. 2019, Natural Wine for the People. And in 2022, right around the corner there will be To Fall in Love Drink This, a wine writer’s memoir.
Translations of my books have appeared in French, Spanish, Slovakian, Italian and Georgian. In the midst of all of this, in the middle of the 2013 storm, Hurricane Sandy, I launched The Feiring Line, the natural wine newsletter.
I’ve won a few prizes, including the James Beard, Louis Roederer and Gourmand writing awards. In 2013 I was named Imbibe Magazine’s Wine Person of the Year. In addition to books, I have an outside writing life and have published numerous essays, have been the past wine correspondent for Wall Street Journal Magazine and Time and currently freelance for a never-ending parade of publications, including The New York Times, Town & Country, Wine & Spirits, World of Fine Wine and Newsweek, among others, from my tenement apartment in New York City. There will be occasional free articles for everyone, but a subscription is the way to go to get full access to the articles, musings, newsletter and website.
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