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A New York Minute with ALICE FEIRING

“I haven’t done laundry in 30 years,” says Alice Feiring as we descend the steps of her local laundromat to drop her bag. “I wouldn’t know how to use a washing machine.” It’s a brisk, sunny day and one of natural wine’s most longstanding cheerleaders is utterly at home, not in the laundromat, but in Manhattan’s NoLita neighborhood. The author of six books, Feiring has been instrumental in bringing natural wine to America’s consciousness. Her travels often take her away to visit the small batch, lo-fi winemakers she so passionately champions, but New York City is where she spends most of her time. Feiring has lived in or just outside of the City practically her entire life. “This is

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