Ep. 1598 From Serial Killer To The World's Hottest Wine Trend | wine2wine Business Forum 2022

Welcome to Episode 1598, From Serial Killer to the World's Hottest Wine Trend with Alice Feiring and Felicity Carter. This is the wine2wine Business Forum 2022 Series. The sessions are recorded and uploaded on Italian Wine Podcast. wine2wine Business Forum is an international wine business event, held annually in Verona, Italy since 2014. The event is a key reference point for wine producers and a diverse variety of wine professionals gather to develop and expand their wine business worldwide. Abstract: In Alice Feiring’s new memoir, “To Fall in Love, Drink This”, she does what she has become famous for, linking wine with the shocking, surprising and inconceivable. Case in point: In this book we see her escaping from a serial killer, spending time in one of America’s most notorious prisons, visiting concentration camps, and telling off famous spirit producers. Yes, there’s joy, loss of unconditional love, Nina Simone and dirt collected in jars as an incredible expression of terroir. It is her coming-of-age story linked to her subject, wine, how she has championed the wines now taking the world by storm. Heralded editor and master storyteller, Felicity Carter is charged with interviewing Feiring. In the session, Carter will explore what it takes to overcome wine media controversy, tell a good wine story about wine, and champion the underdogs until the wine world sits up and takes notice. Come along and find out the power of storytelling – and why the wine world needs to embrace greater transparency if it wants to resonate with modern drinkers. More about today’s speaker: 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 others. 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. Connect: Instagram: @alice.feiring Facebook: www.facebook.com/alice.feiring Twitter: @alicefeiring Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/alice-feiring-47658/ More about today’s moderator: Felicity Carter Journalist and editor Felicity Carter is the Executive Editor at The Drop, the content arm of Pix. Previously she worked for Meininger Verlag, Europe’s biggest wine and spirits publisher, where she built Meininger’s Wine Business International into the world’s only global wine business magazine, with correspondents from 30 countries and subscribers in 38. Before arriving in Europe she wrote for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers in her native Australia, and is now an occasional contributor to The Guardian USA. She is an international wine judge and speaker, and editorial consultant to Liv-ex, the London-based fine wine exchange. Connect: Instagram: @carter.felicity Twitter: @FelicityCarter LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/felicity-carter-a5754380/ _______________________________ Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram www.instagram.com/italianwinepodcast/ Facebook www.facebook.com/ItalianWinePodcast Twitter www.twitter.com/itawinepodcast Tiktok www.tiktok.com/@mammajumboshrimp LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/italianwinepodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin! Thanks for tuning in! Listen to more stories from the Italian Wine Community here on Italian Wine Podcast!