Nat Decants: FREE Wine Tips, Picks and Articles

Natalie MacLean is the author of the new book Red, White and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass, recently chosen the Best Wine Literature Book in the English language at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The competition receives more than 6,000 books from 60 countries each year. The awards were created at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany ten years ago to reward those who "cook and drink with words." The book was also nominated for the Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction at the Atlantic Book Awards.

Rex Pickett, author of Sideways, says that Natalie “writes about wine with a sensuous obsession and her book is “often laugh-out-loud funny… terrific.” Eric Asimov of the New York Times, notes that, “Ms. MacLean is the disarming Everywoman … she loves wine, loves drinking … a winning formula.” Newsweek writes, “MacLean's book refreshes with its evenhanded treatment of the outsized personalities populating this industry” The Financial Times of London observes, “Natalie MacLean is a new force in the wine writing world—a feisty North American answer to Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson. She writes beautifully about wine.”

Natalie has created an interactive wine-and-food matcher on her web site that has thousands of combinations for everyday meals, vegetarian cuisine, egg-based sauces, cheese, fast food, and even dessert, including Jell-O and fudge (for those who like to layer their vices).

She also offers a FREE wine e-mail newsletter with tips on buying wines, choosing from restaurant lists, matching wine and food and chuckling over the lighter side of wine. The newsletter was named one of the three best food and wine newsletters at the James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards.

There are no ads and your e-mail address will be kept confidential. To sign-up, visit www.nataliemaclean.com.

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QPRWines Where Quality and Price Relate.

QPRWines is a wine buying guide that groups wines by the major critics' average wine scores, then lists them by price and ranks them by value. QPRwines is published 18 times a year (delivered via email) and answers the question "Is a 90 rated 2000 Bordeaux a good value for $20?" Each issue profiles a different wine varietal with two recent vintages.

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Todd M. Wernstrom's Carafe Reflections From the Vine

In each issue of Carafe, the measure of a wine is taken but not scored. After all, every glass is more than a number. Carafe is in-depth writing about that which makes wine interesting, a wine's connection to its place, or as the French term it, terroir. Visit Carafewine.com for a special introductory offer for first time subscribers.

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