Being a small woman and strong, and Jewish New Yorker who speaks in first person and tells of his adventures with wine hilándolas like pearls from the vicissitudes of his love life is like a character in Woody Allen, Mia Farrow probably of the Purple Rose of Cairo .
She studied dance therapy while he indulged a smell that is not inherited from their parents but their grandparents. And small could smell everything before taking it to the mouth, to the point of getting rid of fish struck by falling into disrepair, as did the rest of his family during a celebration.
He came to the wine world by chance. In fact, do not know anyone, critic, lover of wine, including master of wine, which has not arrived by that route. Even many of the natural wine makers came to them as Roquefort came to mankind, by an oversight or a distraction.
Why do you think that this book is important for wine lovers in the Hispanic world, I asked.
The publication of my book in Spain is something that touches me deeply. It moves me to awaken the attention in this way. I can only assume this has something to do with a still proud of the wine lover in Spain and a sense of loss because the wine is really disappearing in favor of one of a more 'international'. If the book is important because Spain is likely to express their feelings in heart winemakers and wine lovers, he said.
I think Battle for Wine and Love or saved the world from parkerization is a very entertaining book, which is read at full speed and you can taste both the wine lover, like to travel, and the of adventure novels or Robin Hood in Ridley Scott . He should be in electronic format because the information provided Feiring is impressive in quantity and quality. Are necessary links to wineries, names, recipes, geographic locations, wine, quality of the vintage, romance novels, movies used to be. It is essential to read with a notepad and pen handy.
Alice Feiring wine travels the world to seek answers to a question: why was standardized creation of wine around the world and how much responsibility is in Case Robert Parker Jr .?
And the answer is the excuse for a luxury guide through the world of natural wine especially in France and Italy. An array of wine culture, humor, information, sensitivity and resistance. The universe is made of teachers Feiring, friends, love, broken dreams and the goal of fighting for the wine you like. Of terroir without reverse osmosis machines, or selected yeasts, no new barrels and small. Wines enamored by the expression of the fruit, the terroir and the winemaker. Authentic wines before traditional and concluded with his friend and mentor Joe Dressner .
It is also a self-help manual for overcoming shyness and ask about the unknown.
For it all began when the woman for whom his father had abandoned his mother, proposed loot the cellar of her husband. Almodóvar ¿? No! Feiring, nice to meet you! She is still timid, kept three bottles, one a Barolo of Giacomo Scanavino , and from here, the Barolo began to give me around in his head like a fly. I had to know what it was.
While reading the book, I was with my friend Marc to go to celebrate four years of Enoteca d'Italia and decided to embolden me by reading this new "friend". I decided to overcome my own shyness, enter the voice clarified, ahem, and ask for a Barolo for times of crisis.
I did. I asked Leonardo to smile from their thinness and spent giacomettiana to explain what a barolo, how much to wait, which is absurd and also the Barolo region are opposite to yours, the "enemy." From his story and looking from the corner of my left eye the price tags, I knew that I had not yet reached the time of Barolo. However care with care in my fridge at 17 degrees a nebbiolo which Leonardo sold us in tears because it was the last bottle of biodynamic wine in his opinion absolutely fabulous: Hilberg Pasquero Langhe , 2007, 100 × 100 nebbiolo. Thanks Leonardo, thanks Alice.
I confess to having personal knowledge I have with a good deal of natural wine producers and artisans in Spain, caused me especially curious to read what he wrote about it. And to my surprise, the chapter is based on Rioja Spain from where it moves a little bit of Galicia and the Basque Country. So read it in search of self confirmation of ideas, will be disappointed.
Start by throwing the full weight face a name with character and never have associated with a book like this. Alice Feiring confesses his unconditional love for the wines of Lopez de Heredia and claims that is all that remains of the real Rioja. The rest are falling down the hill rolling their barrels and small French and modernized in the process of standardization and death. ¿Rioja say no more? Is not there no hope?. Yes of course. According to her, there lives and produces a very young French, pointing to that recommended ways and watch. Olivier Rivière. Do not boder me Alice!
When you read that name I could not believe. A few days ago I wrote an email saying that Alice Feiring came to Barcelona and I would like to introduce their wines! We had met our return FIVE . We were met for two hours and we were introduced, along with Luis Arnedo , the wines they make. Olivier replied saying grateful that Alice had been with him and knew his wines. The wines of Louis are on the way.
I also thought the Albariños Todd Blomberg , but Once Again, Alice was ahead of me. She met him at Millesime Bio and went to visit him later. Todd told me he knew I sent the mail from Alice to tell him about his part and that if we were to eat to remember that only eats vegetables. Kiss and Todd!
The Albariños Heirs of Benito Santos down the decibels in a conversation that takes screams. Authority are serene, quiet strength. These are wines that connoisseurs try and say, mmm that are good, but not albariños! Alice has an idea about this: the reason that the Albariño, originally neutral odor, had begun to smell, like Sauvignon Blanc, a cat pee was that the producers of wine yeast added to wines to change design texture, aroma and flavor.
Both groups wines are not in Barcelona, the city where I live, or the greater part of Spanish territory. The Internet can get by buying ( Wine Route sold to Todd) or if you travel to Japan, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, etc ...
In a few days know her personally. And I hope there is not time to talk about wine, and likes. I love what you write and how well does it and I agree, now would like to know more. How is La Flaca, will be in love, will continue playing in a band of French music, you've seen the Robin Hood in Ridley Scott?
And of course, have known more natural wine Spanish? What do you think? Will he come to spend a few days in Granada, La Mancha, Catalunya?
Last but not least, I feel good that Tusquets has published this translation quality content that is very story of the current debates in the global wine world and I think it becomes more important if it serves to open doors to the editor content produced from the hispanomundo, its sensitivity, its characters and their obsessions .
See you on Saturday and then more gossip.
Salut and good wine!
