Wine Critics

Welcome to Vine to Wine this is your host Linda Moran. I enjoy reading wine critics and today I thought I would share my insights into two of my favorites.

Wine critics John Brecher and Dorothy Gaiter, write the Tastings column for the Wall Street Journal. I always appreciate their humor and candor. They have a way about them, they keep a potentially pretention topic approachable for most of us.I was cruising the interent looking for something unrelated and I saw an interview with the two of them and of course I couldn’t resist clicking on it. There was a quote in the article by Anne Louise Bannon, where Dorothy Gaiter when asked what the Tastings column is all about replies, “Wine is good for world peace. It slows down your meal, and when you slow down, it promotes conversation. We talk. We get connected to those things that are important."  When John is asked he replies "We always say that our wine column isn't a wine column. It's a lifestyle column. We really write about enjoying life in our times. We maybe enjoy our lives a little bit more because wine is a part of it. We feel we're giving people permission to enjoy life." To me that summed it up that is what this whole crazy wine thing is about. It slows us down and makes us more civilized. You can read many of the columns on-line. They are published in the Friday edition of the paper. Remember to send your wine questions to linda at vine to wine dot net and thank you for joining me on today’s Vine to Wine.