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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 neverending process of comingofage

Alice Feiring is a special sort of wine writerthe 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 comingofage 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 elevenyear relationship the death of her father a nearfatal brush with a serial killer pandemic lockdown and moreand suffuses each with love romance pain joy and wine Each essay is accompanied by a nononsense wine takeaway designed to answer the questions everyday wine lovers have about wineage price grapes vineyards and vintners

This frank charismatic work is a refreshingly grounded addition to the genre of winewriting Feiring has crafted a timeless positively unpretentious memoir that will appeal to everyone who has ever enjoyed a glass of wine