Two separate interviewers over the past couple of months have asked us the same question: Was there one wine that provided your “aha” moment? We both stumbled on that for a few seconds. So many wines were special to us; we wrote a memoir about many of them called “Love by the Glass: Tasting Notes from a Marriage.” After those interviews, we thought about that question, how we had answered it, and what other wines were signposts for us. Let’s go through a few of them and why they are not just relevant to our lives but maybe important to the world of wine going forward.
love by the glass
June 02, 2023
June 08, 2018"They’re not quite the Rodney Dangerfield of wines, not like Müller-Thurgau by any means, but they still don’t get the respect they deserve: Pinot Grigio and Beaujolais. We had some recently that reminded us how good they can be." Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher
May 10, 2018John Brecher has joined his wife, Dorothy J. Gaiter, as Senior Editor of Grape Collective and co-author of the the bi-weekly column Love by the Glass. Gaiter and Brecher conceived and wrote The Wall Street Journal's wine column, "Tastings," from 1998 to 2010.
March 17, 2014Long before the 2004 movie Sideways made it a joke, Merlot had lost its way. This 2011 Merlot was a happy revelation.
February 17, 2014“The name Amrita comes from the Buddhist equivalent of ambrosia, or a wine of the gods."
February 03, 2014The last Saturday of February is Open That Bottle Night, a celebration of wine, memories and friendship that John and I founded almost 15 years ago.
January 27, 2014Dorothy J. Gaiter on Monthélie, a terrific value wine from the Côte de Beaune in Burgundy.
