I love Alice, "wine bitch"

...Alice Feiring, that is.  And chill, chill.  Even her own web site calls her "wine bitch." 

I point this out because her latest blog entry on brix and ripeness suggests one hell of a chapter in her up-coming book on the mad mad mad mad (etc.) world of wine. 

She tells me the book is scheduled for publication in the autumn of 2007.

What's refreshing about her is that she lets you know, right  from the opinionated, sprightly get-go, where she stands on such momentous issues as alcoholic heat in wine, overripeness, hype and scores (in a word: feh!), and all manner of cellar trickery.  And where her vinous heart lies: East of New York. 

From what she's told me, I get the impression -- erroneous, maybe, so correct me if I'm wrong -- that her book will be a more acerbic version of Laurence Osborne's Accidental Connoisseur, which itself had an emperor's-new-clothes motif running through it.  That's not quite right -- I suspect Alice's approach will be a lot more detailed and analytical, the better to skewer the several fakers and bullshit artists she's encountered.

Hey, Alice, it'd be fun to publish an interview with you, a teaser for your legion of fans.  Eh?

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[Fredric Koeppel]

I've bumped into Alice at tastings in NYC occasionally over the past 10-15 years. So innocent-looking to radiate such ferocity. I'll use this .55 thing from now on.