Alice Feiring

{{Short description|American journalist and author}}

Alice Feiring is an American journalist and author, for several years a wine and travel columnist for Time magazine,{{Cite web|last= Butts |first= Mickey, Food & Wine | url=http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/seven-best-wine-blogs |title=Seven Best Wine Blogs | date= October 2005 }} and known as an advocate for "natural wine".{{cite news|last= Feiring |first= Alice, Time |title= Au Naturel |url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1226141,00.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080106101313/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1226141,00.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= January 6, 2008 |date= August 13, 2006 }}

In addition to contributions to publications such as The New York Times,[https://www.nytimes.com/by/alice-feiring Alice Feiring at the New York Times] New York Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Times, Condé Nast Traveler and Forbes Traveler, her blog "The Feiring Line" (formerly: "Veritas in Vino")[https://thefeiringline.com/blog/ The Feiring Line] is considered one of the best in its specific category,{{Cite web |last= Marcus |first= Lawrence, Food & Wine |url= http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/niche-wine-blogs |title= Niche Wine Blogs |date= October 2005 |access-date= 2008-05-02 |archive-date= 2008-04-18 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080418032714/http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/niche-wine-blogs |url-status= dead }} and her voice described by Mike Steinberger as part of a new wave of "real flowering of high-quality wine journalism". In 2011, Feiring was selected as "Online Communicator of the Year" by the Louis Roederer International Wine Writer Awards.Louis Roederer International Wine Writer Awards [http://www.theroedererawards.com/previous-winners/ Previous Winners] On Sept. 30, 2020, Feiring was named a Knight of the French Order of Agricultural Merit.{{Cite instagram |user=alice.feiring |postid= https://www.instagram.com/p/CKccwcKLOgB/?igshid=1fpezz76iuvzl|title=Alice Feiring, Certificate of Chevalier|date=24 January 2020}}

Her first book, published in May 2008,{{cite web|last=Publishers Weekly |title= Nonfiction Reviews: The Battle for Wine and Love: Or, How I Saved the World from Parkerization |url= https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-15-101286-2 |date=March 24, 2008}} The Battle for Wine and Love: Or How I Saved the World from Parkerization, described as "an opinionated look at the fight to preserve authenticity and diversity in wine", due to its perceived "declaration of war" against critic Robert Parker found some controversy well before its date of release.{{cite web |last= Hellman |first= Peter, The New York Sun |title= Food Blogger Takes on the Biggest Name in Wine: Robert Parker |url= http://www.nysun.com/food-drink/food-blogger-takes-on-the-biggest-name-in-wine/76006/ |date= May 7, 2008 |access-date= March 23, 2009 |archive-date= March 21, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090321071506/http://www.nysun.com/food-drink/food-blogger-takes-on-the-biggest-name-in-wine/76006 |url-status= dead }} Reviewing the book, Eric Asimov later wrote, "Ms. Feiring is an uncompromising judge of wine and people who can no more stomach a lover’s preference for a wine she abhors than she can the presence of a microwave in her kitchen."{{cite news|last= Asimov |first= Eric, The New York Times |title= Good Wine Reading With Mellow Aftertaste |work= The New York Times |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/dining/reviews/21pour.html |date= May 21, 2008}} Feiring's critical statements against California wine as "overblown, over-alcoholed, over-oaked, overpriced and over-manipulated"{{cite news|last= Feiring |first= Alice, LA Times |title= California wine? Down the drain |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-may-05-oe-feiring5-story.html |date= May 5, 2008 |work=Los Angeles Times}} have also sparked controversy.{{cite web |last= Gordon |first= Jim, Wine Enthusiast |title= What's Behind the California Wine Bashing? |url= http://blog.winemag.com/editors/2008/05/08/whats-behind-the-california-wine-bashing/ |date= May 8, 2008 |access-date= 2008-09-10 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100522205733/http://blog.winemag.com/editors/2008/05/08/whats-behind-the-california-wine-bashing/ |archive-date= 2010-05-22 |url-status= dead }}{{cite news|last= DeBord |first= Matthew, LA Times |title= Terroir-izing California wine |url= http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-oew-debord12-2008may12-story.html |date= May 12, 2008 |work=Los Angeles Times}}Mackay, Jordan, Chow (June 11, 2008). [https://www.chowhound.com/food-news/54546/california-terroir/ California Terroir: Wines that taste like they’re from somewhere]

In 2011, Feiring published Naked Wine: Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally.[https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/alice-feiring/naked-wine/9780306820489/ Naked Wine, Da Capo Press (2011)] Her 2016 book For the Love of Wine: My Odyssey Through the World's Most Ancient Wine Culture,[https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/potomac-books/9781612347646/ For the Love of Wine, University of Nebraska Press (2016)] explores the wine of Georgia.[https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-toast-to-georgian-wine-1456881057#:~:text=Natural%20wine%20advocate%20Alice%20Feiring%20talks%20about%20her,Photo%3A%20Adrienne%20Grunwald%20for%20The%20Wall%20Street%20Journal Lettie Teague, A Toast to Georgian Wine, Wall Street Journal (1 March 2016)] In 2017, Feiring published The Dirty Guide to Wine: Following Flavor from Ground to Glass.[https://wwnorton.com/books/9781581573848 The Dirty Guide to Wine, Countryman Press (2017)][https://www.winemag.com/2018/10/22/essential-natural-wine-books/ Christina Picard,12 Essential Books for Natural Wine Lovers, Wine Enthusiast (22 Oct. 2018)] She also wrote Natural Wine For The People: What It Is, Where to Find It, How to Love It released in August 2019.[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586481/natural-wine-for-the-people-by-alice-feiring/ Natural Wine for the People] Her most recent book is "To Fall In Love, Drink This: A Wine Writer's Memoir" (2022, Simon and Schuster).