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For the Love of Wine

My Odyssey Through the World's Most Ancient Wine Culture

By: Alice Feiring

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For the Love of Wine

My Odyssey Through the World's Most Ancient Wine Culture

By: Alice Feiring

In 2011 when Alice Feiring first arrived in Georgia, she felt as if she’d emerged from the magic wardrobe into a world filled with mythical characters making exotic and delicious wine with the low-tech methods of centuries past. She was smitten, and she wasn’t alone. This country on the Black Sea has an unusual effect on people; the most passionate rip off their clothes and drink wines out of horns while the cold-hearted well up with tears and make emotional toasts. Visiting winemakers fall under Georgia’s spell and bring home qvevris (clay fermentation vessels) while rethinking their own techniques. But, as in any good fairy tale, Feiring sensed that danger rode shotgun with the magic. With acclaim and growing international interest come threats in the guise of new wine consultants aimed at making wines more commercial. So Feiring fought back in the only way she knew how: by celebrating Georgia and the men and women who make the wines she loves most, those made naturally with organic viticulture, minimal intervention, and no additives. From Tbilisi to Batumi, Feiring meets winemakers, bishops, farmers, artists, and silk spinners. She feasts, toasts, and collects recipes. She encounters the thriving qvevri craftspeople of the countryside, wild grape hunters, and even Stalin’s last winemaker while plumbing the depths of this tiny country’s love for its wines. For the Love of Wine is Feiring’s emotional tale of a remarkable country and people who have survived religious wars and Soviet occupation yet managed always to keep hold of their precious wine traditions. Embedded in the narrative is the hope that Georgia has the temerity to confront its latest threat—modernization.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612348408

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9781612348407

The Battle for Wine and Love

Or How I Saved the World from Parkerization

By: Alice Feiring

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The Battle for Wine and Love

Or How I Saved the World from Parkerization

By: Alice Feiring

I want my wines to tell a good story. I want them natural and most of all, like my dear friends, I want them to speak the truth even if we argue," says Alice Feiring. Join her as she sets off on her one-woman crusade against the tyranny of homogenization, wine consultants, and, of course, the 100-point scoring system of a certain all-powerful wine writer. Traveling through the ancient vineyards of the Loire and Champagne, to Piedmont and Spain, she goes in search of authentic barolo, the last old-style rioja, and the tastiest new terroir-driven champagnes. She reveals just what goes into the average bottle--the reverse osmosis, the yeasts and enzymes, the sawdust and oak chips--and why she doesn't find much to drink in California. And she introduces rebel winemakers who are embracing old-fashioned techniques and making wines with individuality and soul. No matter what your palate, travel the wine world with Feiring and you'll have to ask yourself: What do i really want in my glass?

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0156033267

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9780156033268

Natural Wine for the People

What It Is, Where to Find It, How to Love It

By: Alice Feiring

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Natural Wine for the People

What It Is, Where to Find It, How to Love It

By: Alice Feiring

A compact illustrated guide to the emerging and enormously popular category of natural wine, a style that focuses on minimal intervention, lack of additives, and organic and biodynamic growing methods. Today, wine is more favored and consumed that it's ever been in the United States--and millennials are leading the charge, drinking more wine than any other generation in history. Many have been pulled in by the tractor beam of natural wine--that is, organic or biodynamic wine made with nothing added, and nothing taken away--a movement that has completely rocked the wine industry in recent years. While all of the hippest restaurants and wine bars are touting their natural wine lists, and while more and more consumers are calling for natural wine by name, there is still a lot of confusion about what exactly natural wine is, where to find it, and how to enjoy it. In Natural Wine for the People, James Beard Award-winner Alice Feiring sets the record straight, offering a pithy, accessible guide filled with easy definitions, tips and tricks for sourcing the best wines, whimsical illustrations, a definitive list to the must-know producers and bottlings, and an appendix with the best shops and restaurants specializing in natural wine across the country, making this the must-buy and must-gift wine book of the year.

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Ten Speed Press

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0399582444

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9780399582448

To Fall in Love, Drink This

A Wine Writer's Memoir

By: Alice Feiring

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To Fall in Love, Drink This

A Wine Writer's Memoir

By: Alice Feiring

Nominated for a James Beard Award Named a Best Wine Book of 2022 by The New York Times, Forbes, and The Washington Post From veteran wine writer and James Beard Award winner Alice Feiring, an insightful and entertaining memoir of wine, love, heartbreak, and the never-ending process of coming-of-age. Alice Feiring is a special sort of wine writer—the kind who dares to disagree with wine “experts”, and who believes wholeheartedly that the best wine writing is about life. To Fall in Love, Drink This is both her love letter to wine and a lifelong coming-of-age story. In a series of candid, wise, and humorous personal essays, Feiring tells the story of her parents’ divorce, her first big wine assignment, the end of an eleven-year relationship, the death of her father, a near-fatal brush with a serial killer, pandemic lockdown, and more—and suffuses each with love, romance, pain, joy, and wine. Each essay is “accompanied” by a no-nonsense wine take-away designed to answer the questions everyday wine lovers have about wine—age, price, grapes, vineyards, and vintners. This frank, charismatic work is a refreshingly grounded addition to the genre of wine-writing. Feiring has crafted a timeless, positively unpretentious memoir that will appeal to everyone who has ever enjoyed a glass of wine.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982176784

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9781982176785

The Dirty Guide to Wine: Following Flavor from Ground to Glass

By: Alice Feiring

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The Dirty Guide to Wine: Following Flavor from Ground to Glass

By: Alice Feiring

Discover new favorites by tracing wine back to its roots Still drinking Cabernet after that one bottle you liked five years ago? It can be overwhelming if not intimidating to branch out from your go-to grape, but everyone wants their next wine to be new and exciting. How to choose the right one? Award-winning wine critic Alice Feiring presents an all-new way to look at the world of wine. While grape variety is important, a lot can be learned about wine by looking at the source: the ground in which it grows. A surprising amount of information about a wine’s flavor and composition can be gleaned from a region’s soil, and this guide makes it simple to find the wines you’ll love. Featuring a foreword by Master Sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier, who contributed her vast knowledge throughout the book, The Dirty Guide to Wine organizes wines not by grape, not by region, not by New or Old World, but by soil. If you enjoy a Chardonnay from Burgundy, you might find the same winning qualities in a deep, red Rioja. Feiring also provides a clarifying account of the traditions and techniques of wine-tasting, demystifying the practice and introducing a whole new way to enjoy wine to sommeliers and novice drinkers alike.

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The Countryman Press

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1581575254

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Naked Wine

Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally

By: Alice Feiring

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Naked Wine

Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally

By: Alice Feiring

Naked wine is wine stripped down to its basics -- wine as it was meant to be: wholesome, exciting, provocative, living, sensual, and pure. Naked, or natural, wine is the opposite of most New World wines today; Alice Feiring calls them -- overripe, over-manipulated, and overblown -- and makes her case that good (and possibly great) wine can still be made, if only winemakers would listen more to nature and less to marketers, and stop using additives and chemicals. But letting wine make itself is harder than it seems. Three years ago, Feiring answered a dare to try her hand at natural winemaking. In Naked Wine, she details her adventure -- sometimes calm, sometimes wild, always revealing -- and peers into the nooks and crannies of today's exciting, new (but centuries-old) world of natural wine.

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Da Capo Press

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030682048X

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The Battle for Wine and Love

Or How I Saved the World from Parkerization

By: Alice Feiring

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Natural Wine for the People

What It Is, Where to Find It, How to Love It

By: Alice Feiring

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What It Is, Where to Find It, How to Love It

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For the Love of Wine

My Odyssey Through the World's Most Ancient Wine Culture

By: Alice Feiring

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My Odyssey Through the World's Most Ancient Wine Culture

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This is Feiring's ode to a country, a history, a culture, and the religion that has preserved and continued to shape wine across the centuries. More than that, it's the stories of the people behind the country's wine efforts today, an exploration of the face and heart behind an ancient tradition that is reshaping the contemporary wine scene. --Publisher's description.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612347649

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Naked Wine

Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally

By: Alice Feiring

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Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally

By: Alice Feiring

From the famous, funny, and irreverent wine author, a personal journey into the newand oldworld of natural wine

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Da Capo Press

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0306819538

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To Fall in Love, Drink This

A Wine Writer's Memoir

By: Alice Feiring

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A Wine Writer's Memoir

By: Alice Feiring

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Red

Red : guide des vins naturels dans le mondea guide to the World's natural wines

By: Michel Tuz,Alice Feiring

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Red : guide des vins naturels dans le mondea guide to the World's natural wines

By: Michel Tuz,Alice Feiring

Du plus prestigieux au moins connu, il est des vignerons qui produisent à travers le monde des vins naturels soucieux de" respecter et d'honorer tant l'environnement que le jus même de leurs vignes. Ce guide en recense 750, qu'il accompagne d'adresses de bars à vins et de restaurants où goûter leurs produits : de Paris à Tokyo, de New York à Nice, en passant par Buenos Aires, RED est une invitation à déguster.

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2917411333

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Food & Wine Magazine's Official Wine Guide 2001

By: Alice S. Feiring

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Food & Wine Magazine's Official Wine Guide 2001

By: Alice S. Feiring

A updated guide to wine includes everything you need to know, whether you are a wine novice or expert, including information on choosing wine, what wine to pair with certain food, and more, presented in a concise and intelligent format. Original. 35,000 first printing.

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Amer Express Food & Wine Corporation

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Book's by Alice Feiring

For the Love of Wine

For the Love of Wine

The Battle for Wine and Love

The Battle for Wine and Love

Natural Wine for the People

Natural Wine for the People

To Fall in Love, Drink This

To Fall in Love, Drink This

The Dirty Guide to Wine: Following Flavor from Ground to Glass

The Dirty Guide to Wine: Following Flavor from Ground to Glass

Naked Wine

Naked Wine

The Battle for Wine and Love

The Battle for Wine and Love

Natural Wine for the People

Natural Wine for the People

For the Love of Wine

For the Love of Wine

Naked Wine

Naked Wine

To Fall in Love, Drink This

To Fall in Love, Drink This

Red

Red

Food & Wine Magazine's Official Wine Guide 2001

Food & Wine Magazine's Official Wine Guide 2001

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