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 Dottie and John grapecollective.com/articles/drops…

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." Dottie and John grapecollective.com/articles/washi…

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…

Check out next months Wine Writers’ Symposium Symposium Virtual Roundtable with John Bercher from Dottie and John winewriterssymposium.org/homepage-annou…

Pinot Celebration in Oregon: These New York Mets Fans Dream of the NBA "Sometimes celebrity labels are real wine. " By Dottie and John grapecollective.com/articles/pinot…

Thank you Wine Writers’ Symposium for an informative Symposium Virtual Roundtable this morning with John Bercher from Dottie and John #goodstuff

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

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. " Dottie and John grapecollective.com/articles/excit…

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." Dottie and John grapecollective.com/articles/sudde…

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 Dottie and John grapecollective.com/articles/a-gho…

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 Matthiassons in Napa, were MFEO." Dottie and John grapecollective.com/articles/susta…

‘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.." Dottie and John grapecollective.com/articles/%E2%8…

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 Dottie and John

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. " Dottie and John interview Rachel Allison grapecollective.com/articles/the-c…

"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." Dottie and John talk to Jason Haas Tablas Creek grapecollective.com/articles/Tabla…

Thank you to Dottie and John 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…

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..."Dottie and John grapecollective.com/articles/alsac…

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." Dottie and John grapecollective.com/articles/caber…

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. " Dottie and John grapecollective.com/articles/daugh…

‘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! " Dottie and John grapecollective.com/articles/you-c…