ALICE LASCELLES

Alice Lascelles is an award-winning drinks journalist, author and presenter. 


Alice has been writing about the drinks industry in all its forms for nearly twenty years, but she is probably best-known for her column in the Financial Times, which covers wine, spirits and bar culture. Her articles and columns have also appeared in The Times, The Economist, Wired, Monocle, Vice, Food & Wine and many trade and specialist publications including the Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails.

 

She is an expert on the production and provenance of drinks, but she also loves the stories that go with them. Her subjects have ranged from the rise of Japanese whisky and the science of bubbles, to profiles of Syria’s only working winery and the bar scene that helped regenerate New Orleans post-Katrina. One of her favourite assignments was interviewing the physicist Professor Brian Cox about his champagne collection for the Financial Times.

 

Alice can often be found talking about drinks on the TV and on BBC Radio 4 programmes including The Food Programme and Kitchen Cabinet. She has also given talks and lead tastings at international festivals on both sides of the Atlantic.

 

Her awards include Fortnum & Mason Drinks Writer of the Year and IWSC Spirits Communicator of the Year. She has also been made a Keeper of the Quaich and a Chevalier of the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne in recognition of her work. 

 

Alice is the author of two books. Her second, The Cocktail Edit: Everything You Need to Know About How to Make All The Drinks That Matter (Quadrille 2022) was named a Book of the Year by the Financial Times, The Times, The Telegraph and Esquire, and shortlisted for Cocktail Book of the Year 2023 at Tales of the Cocktail.  Her next book, which is all about the Martini, will be published in Sept 2024. 

 

Before she became a journalist, Alice studied English at Cambridge and spent several years working in the arts. She's also musician with a White Stripes tour and several releases - including an album under the name Alice Gun – under her belt. Her other great loves are gardening, dogs and fell walking in the Lake District. 

 

She lives in London with her husband and two sons.