Alice Lascelles
Alice Lascelles is an award-winning journalist, author, presenter and drinks expert. She writes about drinks for the Financial Times and can often be found on the radio and TV talking about wine, spirits and bar culture.
Since 2017, she’s been the drinks columnist for FT How to Spend It magazine; she is also a regular contributor to FT Weekend. In the twenty years that she’s been covering the drinks industry her articles and columns have also appeared in The Sunday Times, The Times, The Economist, Monocle, Noble Rot, Vice and many trade and specialist titles.
Alice is an expert on the production and provenance of drinks, but what she really loves is 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 gigs was interviewing physicist Professor Brian Cox about his champagne collection for the Financial Times. Occasionally, she writes about other things, too.
Alice loves doing radio and is a familiar voice on Radio 4 programmes including Kitchen Cabinet, PM, Woman’s Hour and Broadcasting House. She also surfaces from time to time on ITV and Channel 4.
In 2019 she was named Fortnum & Mason Drinks Writer of the Year. She is also an IWSC Communicator of the Year and a Keeper of the Quaich.
In 2015 she published her first book, Ten Cocktails: The Art of Convivial Drinking (Saltyard 2015) ¬– a spirited tour of the cocktail cabinet inspired by her travels in pursuit of the mixed drink.
Before she became a journalist full-time, Alice had a second life as a musician which included touring with the White Stripes and releasing an album. She lives in London with her husband, two sons and cocker spaniel Daisy.
Alice’s second book, THE COCKTAIL EDIT, will be published by Quadrille in October 2022.