To Fall in Love, Drink This, Alice Feiring
To Fall in Love, Drink This, Alice Feiring
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To Fall in Love, Drink This
A Wine Writer's Memoir

Author: Alice Feiring

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/09/2022


Synopsis

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.

About Alice Feiring

Journalist and essayist Alice Feiring was proclaimed “the queen of natural wines” by the Financial Times. Feiring is a recipient of a coveted James Beard Award for wine journalism, among many other awards. She has written for newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, New York magazine, Time, AFAR, World of Fine Wine, and the beloved winezine, Noble Rot. She has also appeared frequently on public radio. Her previous books include Natural Wine for the People, Dirty Guide to Wine, For the Love of Wine, Naked Wine: Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally, and her controversial 2008 debut, The Battle for Wine & Love or How I Saved the World from Parkerization. Alice lives in New York and publishes the authoritative natural wine newsletter, The Feiring Line. Visit her online at TheFeiringLine.com.

About Gabra Zackman

Gabra Zackman knows romance. Her clever and “thrilling romantic caper” (Library Journal) Bod Squad series was inspired by the more than one hundred romance and women’s fiction titles she has narrated for audio. She divides her time between her native New York City and Denver, Colorado.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alyssa

This was, in a word, transformative. Not only in the way it transformed me, a girl approaching her late 20s who always had an interest in wine and who is now seeing it as a world with enough room for her. But also, in the way you watch Alice Feiring grow and change. I have never in my life been so a......more

Goodreads review by Carrie

I'm so glad one of the booktenders at Lucian Books and Wine suggested this title. It was such a fun read and hit that sweet spot of great wine writing and beautiful memoir.......more

Goodreads review by Judy

This book made me go all Humpty Dumpty. It broke me. Like the character on the cover, this paperback gem is deceptive (in the best way). You think you're on a sojourn bout wine (and you are), but wine turns out to be the liquid current carrying a subject more profound, sibling love. By the end, Alic......more

Goodreads review by Zelia

I like wine and I like short stories, but somehow these two didn’t harmonize so well here for me. Yes, there’s passion but not one story was able to hook me or care enough to actually pursue said wines.......more

I won a copy of this memoir in a Goodreads Giveaway. Feiring is a professional wine writer, so her writing is well practiced and engaging. Rather than a memoir perse, this read more like a series of essays, gathered in no particular order - sometimes the jumping timelines were a bit confusing for me......more


Quotes

"Narrator Gabra Zackman has that rare ability to get inside the souls of her authors. Here she reads Feiring’s memoir with an understanding of its confessional dips into the past and its compelling journeys into the wine world of the present. Her pauses matter, she chats when needed, and her pacing is spot-on. Zackman’s French and Italian are musical. The audiobook is an appreciation of how a woman with 12 years of a Yeshiva religious education overcame a stressful childhood and unfulfilling romances to become one of the most important wine writers of her time. The merging of this talented narrator with the irreverent but essential wine writer creates a remarkable listening experience."