Wine author Natalie MacLean is more than willing to pose for a photo mid-afternoon with a big glass of Okanagan red wine. And then polish off that glass of 2009 Montage from Naramata’s La Frenz Winery afterward. Full disclosure: I joined her and gulped down the same “This Montage is what I love about Okanagan wines,” said the Ottawa-based author of Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World’s Best Bargain Wines. “It’s packed with flavour, but is balanced with nice acidity.” I met up with MacLean at the Delta Grand hotel before her recent evening Unquenchablesession at the B.C. Wine […]
Books: Wine
A personal, engaging trip around the world looking for bargains – Newsday
The bookshelf is heavy this year. Here are some gifts for your imbibing associates, each to be enjoyed with a good drink at hand. Unquenchable by Natalie MacLean is a personal, engaging trip around the world looking for bargains. It includes top values and some suggestions for menus and pairings. You can read more reviews of my new wine book Unquenchable here.
MacLean is a straight-talking wine everywoman who extols the virtues of bargain wines – Oregonwine.com
This may come as something of a shock, but we don’t spend all of our time visiting wineries, collecting wines and swilling them in lonely, dark corners of our palatial McMinnville mansion. We occasionally read about wine, too, and this season brought two new wine books — Unquenchable, by Natalie MacLean, and Naked Wine, by Alice Feiring — across our desk. Both are second books by women who carved out their own unique wine beats in their first, critically received efforts: MacLean as a kind of straight-talking wine everywoman who extols the virtues of bargain wines; and Feiring as a […]
Drinking Tips for the Aspiring Oenophile – Stute Kitchen
Stute Kitchen Recipe adventures of a few fun & food loving foxes Though CK and I throw back our share of the red wines in this world (and have a damned good time doing it too! Not to mention the actual “wine-throwing” incident…), we’ve both always not-so-secretly wished that we knew more about the wines we were buying and drinking. We both love to learn, and wanted to understand what makes a wine tick, and how to get the most out of any delicious experience (and maybe more importantly, how to turn wines that make us screw up our faces […]
Creative Partnering takes the Traditional Book Tour to a New Level and Scale with Air Miles, Fairmont Hotels, Random House – Publisher’s Weekly
Random House of Canada is experimenting with a different kind of book tour this fall–one that guarantees book sales from every person attending a launch. Working with strategic marketing partners such as Fairmont Hotels and Air Miles, the company is creating ticketed events that include a copy of the book in the price. It’s a different kind of business model, says Tracey Turriff, senior vice-president, director of marketing and communications. “There are some situations with bookstore events where even if you have a great crowd, you don’t necessarily always sell a lot of books at those events.” Granted, it may […]
327 Pages of Wine Wit, Information, Adventure, Stories, Memories, and Lore – Hoosier Wine Cellar
I’m not just a pushover for wine books. Of the hundreds I’ve bought over the years, I’d like to say each one was judiciously and carefully selected, purchased only if it were of high quality and useful information. Of course, that’s not the case; my shelf is filled with trifling wine books, some pretty, some not; the point is that there are a lot of books out there and, as one would expect, some are better than others. Natalie MacLean’s just published Unquenchable goes right to the top of my list, just above her earlier book, Red, White and Drunk […]
An Entire Week’s Worth of Wine Pairings – Joy Farrell-Grove
Joy Farrell-Grove I was initially skeptical I would be engrossed in Natalie MacLean’s latest book, Unquenchable; most of my non-fiction reading is devoted to hefty school readings. The premise of a wine book did not immediately pique my interest, this in spite of my own affinity for a glass. It was, however, Natalie’s writing style that drew me in completely. Her writing is succinct in that you feel as though the book is whipping by and as it does, she fills your head with heady visions of lush wineries and eccentric characters. The style of writing is interesting. For much […]
Entertaining Anecdotes and Delicious Wine Recommendations – Reading Between the Lines
New Release: “Unquenchable” by Natalie MacLean If you know me personally, you probably know that I am a BIG wine fan. I’m not quite a connoisseur but I know enough to understand my father when he begins the wine talk as he decants and I can follow along when visiting a vineyard or wine bar. I’d love to learn more though–and with my friend Natalie MacLean’s new book, Unquenchable, releasing today I now have a great opportunity. Whee! Natalie has traveled the world researching, tasting, and exploring some of the best bargain wines. She’s taken those experiences and blended them […]
Rollicking Travelogue of her Journeys Around the World in Search of the Best Vino – Washinton Post
Interesting review and discussion here of several wine books that focus on bargain wines from the wine columnist for the Washington Post… Someone has declared war on wine. I think it’s the Tea Party. One salvo came from Slate, which used to be known for intelligent wine writing until it fired its wine writer, Michael Steinberger. Early this month, Slate published an essay by Brian Palmer under the headline, Drink Cheap Wine. (Palmer has probed other searing questions for Slate such as why Americans don’t eat horse meat and why some people pee themselves and others don’t.) Palmer quotes a […]
Canadian Wine Writer Pens New Bestseller – Wine Access Magazine
Wondering what to get for your favourite wine lover this holiday season? Consider a copy of Canadian wine writer Natalie MacLean’s new book. The book, Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World’s Best Bargain Wines, chronicles MacLean’s lively forays into wine regions and interviews with some of the world’s top winemakers, both familiar (Australia’s Wolf Blass) to less-known but equally influential (Italy’s Andrea Franchetti); the book is already on bestseller lists across Canada. Her award-winning first book, “Red, White and Drunk All Over,” was also a bestseller. It was published in 2006 in seven countries and several languages. In addition […]
