In Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass, Natalie MacLean takes her readers behind the scenes of the international wine world—exploring its history, visiting its most evocative places, and meeting its most charismatic personalities. The book has been described as A Year in Provence meets Kitchen Confidential then goes Sideways.

What is your new book—Red, White, and Drunk All Over—about?

I take my readers behind the scenes of the international wine world, exploring its history, visiting its most evocative places and meeting its most charismatic personalities. For example, while tasting sensuous pinot noir in the ancient cellars of Burgundy, I discover the mysterious tenets of biodynamic viticulture from the tiny, ferocious Lalou Bize-Leroy, part-owner of France’s acclaimed Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. I work in a couple of wine stores to figure out how people can find the right bottle when faced with thousands of them. And I wade into a famous feud between Robert Parker and Jancis Robinson, two of the world’s best-known wine critics to determine what those scores out of 100 really mean.

The paperback edition of the book has just been published and includes a new chapter on five foods that are toughest on wine.

What’s your book not about then?

It’s not about measuring up to somebody else’s idea of what wine or a wine lover ought to be. It’s not the vinous version of “chick lit” either: even though I write from a woman’s perspective, I hope both men and women will enjoy it. And it’s also not—as some have assumed from the title—my tell—all memoir of how I became an alcoholic by drinking wine. (When people ask me this, I tell them no—but be patient. I’ll probably write that book in twenty years or so, as I’m only beginning my decline now.)

How is your book different from other wine books?

A lot of wine books are either encyclopedias or how-to guides. Those are certainly helpful in their own right, but that’s not what I wanted to do. I prefer to tell stories about wine—tales that I hope will both entertain my readers and also teach them a lot. My stories cover all the aspects from grape to glass: how wine is made, marketed, matched with food, consumed and cellared.

Natalie MacLean is an accredited sommelier and has won numerous awards, among them four James Beard Journalism Awards, including the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award; five IACP Bert Greene Awards; four Association of Food Journalists Awards; and four North America Travel Journalists Association Awards; and she has been named the World’s Best Drink Writer. Her work has appeared in Best Food Writing, and she has written for Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Wine Enthusiast, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Natalie publishes her free newsletter, Nat Decants, at www.nataliemaclean.com.

Chic Galleria is giving away an Autographed copy of Red, White, and Drunk All Over (ARV $14.95) to one (1) lucky person.  To enter, we ask that you visit Natalie MacLean’s website www.nataliemaclean.com.  There we promise you will find some amazing things.  Enjoy the Food & Wine Matcher and other helpful advice.  Then come back here and leave a comment letting us know what you found.  A winner will be chosen at random from the comments and announced here on December 31, 2010.

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Congratulations to Janet F (grammyjanetsplace)!!!  Enjoy your book!