{"id":722,"date":"2009-04-20T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batchat.net\/?p=71"},"modified":"2009-04-20T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T13:10:00","slug":"alice-feiring-visits-simsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/alice-feiring-visits-simsbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Feiring visits Simsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had just finished Alice Feiring&#8217;s book, &#8220;The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/dev.bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/d30a3-thebattleforwineandlovecovershot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;width:146px;height:200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/d30a3-thebattleforwineandlovecovershot.jpg?w=150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> and was looking forward to meeting her on Wednesday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darcyandhuber.com\">Darcy and Huber <\/a>tasting.  D &amp; H are a new import company bringing in wines from the Vienna region of Austria.  So boy was I surprised to find out that Alice was speaking right in my little home town of Simsbury CT this very weekend.  I usually have to schlepp down to NY for most wine events, and having Alice in Simsbury was a bonus on a bonus.<a href=\"http:\/\/dev.bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/7962a-dsc01572.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;width:200px;height:150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/7962a-dsc01572.jpg?w=300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>For those of you not familiar with her, Alice is a proponent of &#8220;Natural Wines&#8221; meaning wines made with little or no technical intervention using tools such as Microoxygenation, designer yeasts and the like.  She&#8217;s also gained some notoriety for her interest in biodynamic winemaking, though her focus is on the broader philosophy of natural wines. She is also the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alicefeiring.com\">Veritas in Vino <\/a>blog and a well respected freelance wine writer.<br \/>Alice gave some readings from her books and the audience got to taste their way through some samples of American, French, Chilean and Argentinian examples of the genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had just finished Alice Feiring&#8217;s book, &#8220;The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization&#8221; and was looking forward to meeting her on Wednesday at the Darcy and Huber tasting. D &amp; H are a new import company bringing in wines from the Vienna region of Austria. So boy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7k1BV-bE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}