![]() Did I not mention Natalie is Canadian? Yes. Her books have been selected as Amazon’s Best Books of the Year, and she is the wine expert on several Canadian TV and news shows. Fisher Award for Excellence in Culinary Writing from Les Dames d’Escoffier International. ![]() Natalie has a very, very long resume, including four James Beard Awards and the MF.K. We also flipped the script so I could interview her here for CONSUMED. ![]() Fast forward fourteen years, and guess what? Natalie MacLean reached out to me to be on her podcast, Unreserved Wine Talk, which the New York Times named one of the seven best drinks podcasts to listen to in 2020. Her writing definitely helped inspire me to be a wine writer. I loved her humor, her description of how it feels to fall in love with wine, and her honesty about the appeal of a good buzz. ![]() One of those books was Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass by author Natalie MacLean. ![]() After work each day, I’d go to the Blenheim public library to siphon free wifi, but I’d just as often wind up in the stacks picking out books to read. When my husband and I quit our jobs to work in vineyards around the world in 2008, we spent six months in Blenheim, New Zealand. ![]()
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