Natalie MacLean

Three local women shaping Ottawa’s beverage culture are featured in this week’s Foodie Friday.

The finalists for the 2024 Ottawa Book Awards were announced Sept. 17, and I can’t wait to read their books!

“Never stand between audience members and their wine,” says Natalie MacLean, sommelier and author of Wine Witch on Fire, about her October 27 event at the Ottawa International Writers Festival. The book is a memoir covering a year in MacLean’s life, which she calls her “no good, terrible, very bad vintage.”