Jacqueline Friedrich: The Wine Humanist WINE BY PEOPLE, FOR PEOPLE; WINE FROM THE HEART

Selected Works

Wine Guide
The Wines of France: The Essential Guide for Savvy Shoppers
An indispensable, user-friendly guide to France’s best and best-value wines. Don’t leave home without it!
Wine & Food Guide
A Wine & Food Guide to the Loire
The first and only in-depth guide to the wines and foods of the Loire.
Tribute to Didier Dagueneau
My various reflections on Didier Dagueneau compiled and posted here.
For Those Who Want Yesterday's Papers
Article Archives
My Previously Published (and retrievable) Articles
Website Supplement
Friends and Their Stories
A guide to the people who make frequent appearances in FrenchFeast and their gastronomic (or other) tales.
Wine Tours
WINE TOURS
WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO PLAN YOUR TOUR OF A FRENCH WINE REGION?

Works

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The Wines of France: The Essential Guide for Savvy Shoppers
The book has been nominated for the 2007 James Beard Award in the Wine & Spirits category.

FIRST AID For the Wine Lost: The foolproof tool to guide you through wine shops and restaurant wine lists. Never be intimidated again!

DISCOVERIES For the Wine Lover: Your very own personal shopper with inside information on hot new winemakers and up-and-coming wine regions.

Click on title for news and reviews.

Published by Ten Speed Press in the fall of 2006. List Price: $19.95.

Presenting The Wines of France at WH Smith. Vintner Alain Hasard (Domaine des Champs de L'Abbaye)is introducing me. Mike Spingler is translating his introduction. (I thought it would be unseemly for me to translate.) The photo was taken by Sarah Bastin for WH Smith.(By the way, WH Smith, at 248 rue de Rivoli, is a great place to buy the book if you're in Paris. And you can order on-line.)

A Wine & Food Guide to the Loire
The book won the following Best Wine & Spirits Book of the Year award: James Beard, IACP (Julia Child), Veuve Cliquot, Decanter magazine, Robert Parker (The Wine Advocate). Jancis Robinson has placed it on her list of favorite wine books.

I have just signed a contract with University of California Press for a completely revised and updated edition. In the meantime, I'll continue to post notes on the site. Click on Title for recent Loire Tasting notes. (NB: The Loire tasting notes in this section date from before February 2008. Since February 2008 all tasting notes, including the Loire, are in the aptly titled Tasting Notes section.)

Didier Dagueneau

Tribute to Didier Dagueneau
HOMMAGE TO DIDIER DAGUENEAU

(The tribute begins with my post of September 18th, when I heard of Didier's death. I then post the entry on Didier from my Loire book -- for those who never knew him. The last post is from January 2009.)

Article Archives
Some of the articles I wrote for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other publications, might still be useful. If I can retrieve them, I'll post them here.

Just click on the title.

Friends and Their Stories
This page started as an annotated list of people frequently described in these pages. Today, May 5, 2010, it evolves into something quite different.



WINE TOURS
Would you like me to plan your tour of a French wine region?