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.
Called everything from the Patty Smith to the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of natural wines, 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 a love letter to wine and a lifelong coming-of-age story. In a series of candid, wise, and humorous personal essays, Feiring serves up a memoir in vignettes. She 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 popular—and notoriously stuffy—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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“Her pauses matter, she chats when needed, and her pacing is spot-on. Zackman’s French and Italian are musical…The merging of this talented narrator with the irreverent but essential wine writer creates a remarkable listening experience. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
"Humor and humanity reverberate through every anecdote, driven by Feiring’s curiosity, not just about the wines of the world but about its people.”
— Wine & Spirits Magazine“A full-bodied and bighearted work that’s sure to intoxicate wine aficionados and revelers alike."
— Publishers Weekly“An entertaining and engaging story about grapes and growth.”
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Alice Feiring, journalist, author, and essayist, has been proclaimed “the queen of natural wines” by the London Financial Times. She is the winner of the James Beard and Louis Roederer Wine Writing Awards. among many other awards. She has written for newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, New York magazine, Time, World of Fine Wine, and the beloved winezine Noble Rot. She has also appeared frequently on public radio. She publishes the authoritative natural wine newsletter The Feiring Line. Visit her online at TheFeiringLine.com.
Gabra Zackman is an actress, author, and narrator who has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards. She was educated at Northwestern University. A classically trained actress, she has appeared in theaters all over the country as well as on film and television.