Online Holiday Wine Tasting and Book Launch

Treat yourself and your friends to a live online wine tasting and conversation with Menna Riley and Natalie MacLean about Natalie's new book, "Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much." It's become a National Bestseller (Globe and Mail).

Get warmed up for your holiday season with this inspirational discussion while savouring some top-tier, delicious wines. She'll also share the juicy, behind-the-scenes stories about those who make, market and write about wine.

Make this a holiday gift to yourself!

How do you join this private online gathering on Thursday, November 9th at 7 pm eastern?

All you need to do is purchase wine from one of the wineries below. (You can also buy packages from two wineries or all three, if you wish. Your choice!)

Get Your Tickets with Quails' Gate Wines, B.C.

Get Your Tickets with Westcott Vineyards Wines, Ontario

Get Your Tickets with Benjamin Bridge Wines, Nova Scotia

All three wineries ship across Canada to your doorstep and will include a copy of the book. If you already have it, give it as a holiday gift as I'll be sending signed bookplates for every copy. You'll also receive a Zoom link at the email address you use to buy the wine.

Do you live outside of Canada? You can still participate. Email me for details at natalie@nataliemaclean.com.

Can't make the live event? No worries. Everyone who registers will be sent a video recording after the event that you and your friends can watch and taste along at your convenience. Make it a holiday tasting party.

See you there!

Cheers,
Natalie

>>> PS Please let your family, friends and clients about this event who might be interested in joining us please.

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About Menna Riley

Menna Riley is a strategic networking community builder. Inspired by her vision to elevate the overall business networking landscape for professional women, Menna built one of Nova Scotia’s premier event series and communities in Leading Ladies Networking. Leading Ladies Networking events have helped women build their careers, connections, and community since its inception in 2012.

About the Book

Zesty, vibrant, meditative, edgy, structured, intense—these words Natalie MacLean might use to describe wines all apply to her Wine Witch on Fire. Dire, yes, but the book is funny and a page turner. Anyone at a crux will be buoyed by this writer’s grit and grace. - Frances Mayes, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun

Natalie MacLean has been through hell and back — misogyny, sexism, social media trolling — but her words are heartfelt and her journey inspiring. - Barbara Fairchild, former editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit magazine

Natalie MacLean is living a life that is the definition of resilience. In her empowering new memoir ‘Wine Witch on Fire’ she takes us on her incredible journey filled with love, anguish and fearless determination. Natalie’s story is an inspiration and guide to living well and fearlessly. A fabulous read! - Traci Melchor, Senior Correspondent, Etalk
 
Told with equal parts poignancy and humour, Wine Witch on Fire is a spirited tale of determination lived on the terroir of Natalie's amazing and inspiring journey. - Danny Meyer, Founder & Executive Chairman, Union Square Hospitality Group and New York Times bestselling author, Setting The Table
 
Courageous—that’s the first word that comes to mind while reading Natalie MacLean’s new memoir Wine Witch on Fire. MacLean is an accomplished wine writer, but this deeply personal book takes us behind the scenes, revealing one woman’s journey and extraordinary determination. - Karen MacNeil, bestselling author of The Wine Bible
 
Rousing, funny, and insider-y, Natalie MacLean’s soul-baring memoir paints an evocative and compelling picture of what it’s like to be a woman in wine. - Nell McShane Wulfhart, bestselling author of Off Menu and New York Times columnist
 
This deeply personal memoir tells the inspiring story of a talented woman navigating the treacherous currents of the wine industry, finding her voice and regaining her power through a true connection to time and place, human terroir. - Chef Michael Smith, bestselling author of ten cookbooks, Food Network host
 
Filled with grit and vulnerability. A read filled with healing and hope. - Victoria James, bestselling author of Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America’s Youngest Sommelier
 
There’s a lot of underbelly in this memoir. This book is a significant gesture to push the wine industry toward greater inclusion of people who’ve been marginalized. Natalie, you done good. - Terry Theise, bestselling author of Reading Between the Wines
 
Natalie has crafted her experience into what could pass for an unputdownable thriller. It’s all the more jarring because it’s based on fact. I loved the tension and fast-paced writing. Any man who has a daughter, sister, or mother should read this book. Women with a little witch and fire within them will enjoy it too. - Steven Laine, bestselling author of Dragonvine
 
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Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much (Dundurn Press) is powerful memoir of how one woman resurrects her life and career in the glamorous but sexist wine industry. Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when her husband of twenty years, a high-powered CEO, demands a divorce. Then an online mob of rivals comes for her career.
 
Wavering between depression and determination, she must fight for her son, rebuild her career, and salvage her self-worth using her superpowers: heart, humor, and an uncanny ability to pair wine and food. Natalie confronts her insider role in the slick marketing encouraging women to drink too much while she battles the veiled misogyny of the wine world.
 
Facing the worst vintage of her life, she reconnects with the vineyards that once brought her joy, the female friends who sustain her, and her own belief in second chances. This true coming-of-middle-age story is about transforming your life and finding love along the way.
 
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Natalie MacLean was named the World's Best Drinks Writer at the World Food Media Awards, and has won four James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards. She is the only person to have won both the M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation and the M.F.K. Fisher Award for Excellence in Culinary Writing from Les Dames d'Escoffier International.
 
Her books — Red, White and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass and Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World's Best Bargain Wines — were each selected as one of Amazon's Best Books of the Year. Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much is her debut memoir.
 
Natalie is the host of Unreserved Wine Talk, named one of the seven best drinks podcasts by the New York Times and one of Apple's Best Listens of the Year.
 
Natalie studied the Romantic Poets at Oxford University with Jonathan Wordsworth and graduated with honors from the Master's of Business Administration at Western University. Before joining the wine world, she worked at Procter & Gamble in brand management, and then at the supercomputer company SGI in Mountainview, California, now the headquarters of Google.  
 
Let's connect on social media:
 
Instagram: @nataliemacleanwine
Facebook: @nataliemaclean
Twitter: @nataliemaclean
LinkedIn: @nataliemaclean
 
Website: nataliemaclean.com
Podcast:  nataliemaclean.com/podcast
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