Dottie and John

‘You Call This Wine?’ Let’s Just Admit That Some Wines Are Yech "When we had our Yech wine recently, though, we had an epiphany: We have had fewer wines in 50 years that rated Yech than Delicious! " @winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/you-c…

Daughters on the Rise: Dad Will Listen; Just Give Him Time "..it seems to us that more generations are leaving their wineries, or the winemaking, to their daughters, and that creates a particular kind of dynamic. " @winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/daugh…

Cabernet Franc on the Hudson: Why Wineries Are Taking the Risk "These wines were quite varied, but thoughtful and proud. After all these years, we still very much liked the Whitecliff, which has a special purity." @winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/caber…

Alsace’s Philippe Blanck: “This is a Work in Progress” " To sip a fine wine from Alsace is to appreciate that you are having an experience..."@winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/alsac…

Thank you to @winecouple for including us in their article entitled “The Wine Glass: Half Full? You Decide”. Give it a read. Link to full article: grapecollective.com/articles/the-w…

"We made three barrels of rosé in 1999 and we honestly expected that we would end up drinking most of it. We did release a little bit of it and it sold well and it has basically built from there." @winecouple talk to @jasonchaas @TablasCreek grapecollective.com/articles/Tabla…

The Chemistry of Flavor – and How Dr. Allison Came to Study Canned Wine "I came to this interest as a flavor-chemist person. Now I’m firmly a wine person. Wine attracts people who love to learn. " @winecouple interview Rachel Allison grapecollective.com/articles/the-c…

Anyone know where a 1981 Storybook Mountain Winery Zin might be stashed away? We know someone who might want it back. Read all about it here (and maybe pass it on) here: grapecollective.com/articles/story… #napavalley #napazin #rarezin #storybookmountain @winecouple

‘Guess who got the wine in the divorce?’ Tales from OTBN 2024 "OTBN is celebrated on the last Saturday of February, when all of us need a lift. Once again, wine writers picked up the idea all over the world.." @winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/%E2%8…

Sustainable Valentines: The Matthiassons’ Cycle of Life "The right people end up together because they were: Made For Each Other. Jill Klein Matthiasson and Steve Matthiasson, of @matthiassonwine in Napa, were MFEO." @winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/susta…

A Ghost Bottle Appears Just in Time: It’s Open That Bottle Night! " What should we do with such an old bottle with utterly unknown provenance?" By @winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/a-gho…

Suddenly, We Were in Greece, or Maybe Napa: The Power of Wine to Transport "We don’t think we have ever written “tomato” as a tasting note on a wine." @winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/sudde…

Exciting Wines: They’re Waiting for You, but Where? "We still sample, or consume, many hundreds each year and we find something to like about many of them. But exciting? That’s different. " @winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/excit…

The Perfect Wine for Thanksgiving? A Bottle With History " We’ve always recommended a well-aged wine for Thanksgiving ..." By @winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/the-p…

Thank you @wine_writers for an informative Symposium Virtual Roundtable this morning with John Bercher from @winecouple #goodstuff

Pinot Celebration in Oregon: These @NewYorkMets Fans Dream of the @NBA "Sometimes celebrity labels are real wine. " By @winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/pinot…

Check out next months @wine_writers Symposium Virtual Roundtable with John Bercher from @winecouple winewriterssymposium.org/homepage-annou…

Honored that Poet's Leap Riesling was one of the two wines that "spoke to" Dottie and John of the @GrapeCollective as part as their effort to reconnect with Washington wines. We hope you love the resulting article and informative interview with Gilles. grapecollective.com/articles/washi…

Washington: Our Reconnection -- and Two Awesome Rieslings "In our last “Tastings” column for The Wall Street Journal in 2009, we wrote that three of our most delicious wines of the year were from Washington." @winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/washi…

Drops of God? Fire, Smoke and Frost Are Bedeviling Wineries “I’ve never seen spring frost this bad. This is the worst I’ve ever seen.” column by @winecouple grapecollective.com/articles/drops…