My First Review: Wine & Spirits Magazine
March 02, 2008
I didn't think it was going to be this hard to read reviews. I know there are going to be some people who will hate the book and some who will love it. But the April issue of Wine & Spirits magazine included editor and publisher Joshua Greene's take on my book. And I kind of panicked.
For the first forty-eight hours the actual letters looked like hieroglyphics then after coffee and the NYTimes this morning the words looked more coherent and when the coffee burned off the fog, I was stunned.
I felt the way I did the first time I saw a play of mine read and the actors understood what I had written.
Mr. Greene understood.
He got it.
I was so happy.
He got the irony, he got the humor and of course, he got the wine stuff.
I didn't even flinch when he described me as having "a train of frizzy red hair," and I was moved to hear his last lines:
...like Lynch (Kermit), Feiring's storytelling muscle takes the book beyond the neat genres established in the trade. This is a great read, a great perspective on the movement for natural winemaking and it's funny.
The April issue is their restaurant one. Inside you'll also read writings from a satisfying packet of word slingers. From Tara Thomas' Chatreuse story to Field Maloney's pinot radicals, I couldn't ask for better company.