Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher
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Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher are American
journalist
s, author
s and wine
critic
s, wife and husband who jointly wrote a wine column in The Wall Street Journal
titled "Tastings" between 1998-2009. They rated wines on a scale that ranges from "Yech", "OK", "Good", "Very Good", "Delicious" to "Delicious!". Their careers began simultaneously and have remained connected since their first meeting in the newsroom of The Miami Herald
in 1973.
, Lettie Teague
and Will Lyons
.
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journalist
Journalist
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s, author
Author
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s and wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
critic
Critic
A critic is anyone who expresses a value judgement. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgement. Critical judgements, good or bad, may be positive , negative , or balanced...
s, wife and husband who jointly wrote a wine column in The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
titled "Tastings" between 1998-2009. They rated wines on a scale that ranges from "Yech", "OK", "Good", "Very Good", "Delicious" to "Delicious!". Their careers began simultaneously and have remained connected since their first meeting in the newsroom of The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered on Biscayne Bay in the Omni district of Downtown Miami, Florida, United States...
in 1973.
Final "Tastings" column
Gaiter and Brecher announced at the end of their December 26, 2009 "Tastings" column in The Wall Street Journal that it would be their last. No reason was given, and no hint was provided as to what the couple would do in the future. The writers who later succeeded them as The Wall Street Journal wine columnists were Jay McInerneyJay McInerney
John Barrett McInerney Jr. is an American writer. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City; Ransom; Story of My Life; Brightness Falls; and The Last of the Savages...
, Lettie Teague
Lettie Teague
Lettie Teague is an American author and currently a wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Teague was for several years with Food & Wine, as wine editor of the magazine since 1997 and executive wine editor since 2005, until 2009.-Biography:...
and Will Lyons
Will Lyons
Will Lyons is a British business correspondent and wine columnist formerly writing for Scotland on Sunday. Since November 2009 he has a weekly wine column with The Wall Street Journal Europe, following the departure of Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher, and was in April 2010 joined by Lettie Teague...
.