Alice Feiring Advocates Natural Winemakingbr Commonwealth Club - The Commonwealth Club of Californiabr James Beard Award-winning journalist Alice Feiring, author of The Battle for Wine and Love: Or, How I Saved the World from Parkerization and writer of the online column In Vino Veritas, has been on a quest to discover wine in its original state, before homogenization and new technologies dulled each wine's unique taste and qualities.