Yesterday’s Sunday tasting was a special one. Alice Feiring was here with her brand spanking new book, Naked Wine. She also selected 8 natural wines for us all to taste, from winemakers/growers that are featured in her book. It was truly a delightful tasting and discussion.

Alice hasn’t left town just yet! If you want to make your Monday night a bit more exciting, call the Bazaar ASAP to grab one of the last few spots at what is sure to be an extraordinary evening of food and wine.

Monday, August 29

7PM reception, 7:30PM Seating
Dinner with Alice Feiring at the Bazaar by Jose Andres
5 waves of food and wine including the Calek Blonde, La Clarine Farm White, Mendall l’Abreuradeur and more!
$100pp plus tax and gratuity
Please call the Bazaar at (310) 246-5555 for reservations and reference the “Alice Feiring” dinner

There’s a great piece about LIOCO Winery in the newly revamped LA Times Magazine this morning, written by none other than Alice Feiring! The impossible-to-navigate online version of the Times doesn’t seem to bring up the piece in a search, otherwise we would link to it here.

If you’re in LA, head to the newsstand and pick up the paper, turning to page 118 of the magazine.  No matter where you are, if you want to pick up some of the wines, we’ll send you a copy of the article with your order.  Just be sure to ask. And…welcome to LA, Alice — thanks for such a lovely first article!

We went to an sparsely attended intimate reading last night at our neighborhood wine bar, Lou on Vine, featuring hot-button wine writer Alice Feiring. We read her book about a month back, and, though we don’t always agree with what she says, in the book or elsewhere, we have great respect for both the author’s prose and her point of view. We won’t get into a review of the book here, and maybe we never will (there has certainly been enough back and forth about the tome without us throwing ourselves into the dialogue). Nor will we get into a review of Lou, which continues to grow on us (can’t get enough of the Pig Candy or Hook’s Cheddar) despite our disdain for their frustratingly compact stemware (bitching about it makes us feel a bit wine-snobby, but oh well).

Suffice it to say, Feiring takes a hard line approach to the current state of the wine world, while the approach at domaine547 is admittedly soft line, with a highly inclusive attitude to wine. Yes, we like leaner Loire Valley Cab Francs made with native yeasts. We like us some slightly oxidized Chenin Blanc and Burgundian Pinot Noir. But we also like bolder California wines, such as the Curran Black Oak Syrah, which we’re fairly certain would trigger Alice’s gag reflex (though we bet Alice would be intrigued by the Curran whites). Read more…