Just got back from Alice Feiring’s book party. Brutal gusts of wind slapped shards of rain across my face but I persevered on to the party to drink some Feiring approved wines and celebrate the release of her controversial book. It’s a great read. I hope that enough people will buy, read the book and realize that most wines are horribly manipulated. Alice’s writing is always entertaining, eloquent and well researched, like her articles, her book delivers on all those qualities.

She knows how to throw a good party too. Her guests tend to be smart, talented and varied. I got to meet David Lilly, the part owner of Chambers Street wines, for the first time. We had a great conversation about sulphur in wine and the arguments for and against it. He told me about opposing views between Nicolas Joly’s Biodynamic group and the natural winemakers group – two spheres that surely overlap and yet do not necessarily shares the same views.