Alice Feiring started out as a picky eater
who always smelled her food first, the fact that now she’s an internationally
known author, journalist, and wine authority is as much a surprise to her as
anyone. Because in 1988 she left her career as a Dance Therapist in Boston to
return to New York to pursue her writing; novels, plays. Freelancing was a
means to those ends. Roll ahead? Sure. In 2011, she was named on-line writer of
the year for her blog, The Feiring Line, by the Louis Roederer International
Wine Writer Awards and short-listed for the 2012 feature writing award. Her
blog, which she started in 2004, is frequently cited on best by magazines such
as Food & Wine and Forbes. Her groundbreaking book on authentic wine, The
Battle for Wine and Love (2008), has been published in French and Spanish
editions. Her second book, Naked Wine (2011), has already been released
in French, and will shortly appear in Italian and Georgian editions.
A frequent speaker at literary and wine festivals and seminars, radio
guest and restaurant wine consultant, she is also contributor to such
publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The
Los Angeles Times, World of Fine Wine.
She has served as wine editor of the Los Angeles Times Magazine, as a
contributing editor of Wine & Spirits, and as a wine columnist for
both Newsweek and Time Magazine. In addition she still works on fiction and has published
numerous essays in The New York Times,
New York Magazine and The Washington Post. She lives in New
York City in a tenement walk-up and seems to have the most famous plumbing in
the Big Apple.
