Alice Feiring has written a book called The Battle for Wine and Love or How I Saved the World from Parkerization. Alice Feiring has good taste. I saw her at both of the trade tastings I attended in NYC in February. We don't know each other, I'm too shy to say hi. But apparently we liked the same wines. I have poked and prodded her text, looked for reasons to doubt judgment, and the woman is solid. I find her to be 100% credible. If she's recommended a bottle of wine, I'd buy it.

I ordered stacks of a bunch of naturally made, authentic wines from Jenny and Francois after their lively (perhaps chaotic crush of humanity is more accurate) show. Jenny Lefcourt and Francois Ecot are daring, bringing wines to the US that toy with boundaries of hypernatural oenology and ask questions about what flavors are correct or "authentic" in wine from regions across France. So their show attracted a throng of wine hipsters and buyers. I'm not certain if these wines are are of the zeitgeist, but they are certainly provoking indy-underground discussion, and plenty of mainstream (NYTimes etc.) praise. I've been happily tasting and buying from Jenny Lefcourt for a couple of years. When I saw Alice Feiring's blog notes on the producers we buy from J&F, it made me smile. We agreed so much! But why believe us, we're crass merchants. Check out Alice's notes on the wines we have stacked:

Audrey & Christian Binner: The 04's from this Alsatian house are brilliant. *Pinot Gris is refreshing. *Katzenthal Riesling is got a long grip and layers of flowers and petrol.

Domain de la Patience, St. Guilhem Merlot: By the glass alert. A merlot that is woodsy with a nice dollop of tar and edge, reminds me of a great 1970's zinfandel.

Romaneaux-Destezet: Herve Souhaut's Souteronne is old vine Gamay. The '05 is edgy and lush with more syrah animal than gamay floral.

Deux Anes: I've writen about these wines from Corbieres often. Licorice marks all three wines. The Premier Pas is easy to love. L'Enclos is brooding.

For more of Alice Feiring's wine recommendations and tasting notes, click here.