Natalie MacLean on Quaffing Summer Wines *V*

The Banter

The Guys reconcile salumi and salami and talk about a high-end chocolate scandal.

The Conversation

The Restaurant Guys are eager to speak with Natalie MacLean, renowned wine and food writer, to talk about pairing wines with summer foods, especially vegetables. She offers insightful advice on choosing wines for weddings and other gatherings.

The Inside Track

The Guys talk with Natalie about the beauty of toasts.

“ I love making toasts because I think it just seals the celebration like the bow on the present. It's a symbol of unity. That's what toasting was in the old days. People would literally clink their glasses to make sure the wine spilled a little bit into each other's cup. Well, and they were also making sure they weren't poisoning each other. But that's another issue,” Natalie MacLean on The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2007 

Bio

Natalie is a wine writer and educator. She is the wine expert on CTV's The Social,  CTV News, and Breakfast Television.

Natalie's first book Red, White and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass and her second book Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World's Best Bargain Wines were both selected as one of Amazon's Best Books of the Year. Her third book Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much has become a National Bestseller.

She was named the World's Best Drinks Writer at the World Food Media Awards, and has won four James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards  and the M.F.K. Fisher Award for Excellence in Culinary Writing from Les Dames d'Escoffier International.

Info

Natalie’s site (find her books here)

https://www.nataliemaclean.com/

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