I’m having a space-cadet kind of week (OK, not a totally uncommon occurrence, to be sure).

I meant to do a blog post Wednesday to call attention to an article  in the Home & Garden section. It appeared there rather than in Taste because it was about collecting, and they have regular features on that theme. I figured — and have since had confirmed — that a lot of wine folks don’t always look at our Home & Garden section and missed the package.

I interviewed three women wine collectors, who are much less of a rare breed than they used to be. It’s interesting stuff because I tried to get out of the way and let these women tell their own stories. Among the cool quotes that didn’t make it in there:

Lynne Alpert: “Margaux I find interesting but I don’t find it to be great.  I’m also not that crazy about Cheval Blanc. … A lot of the memorable times were these encounters with quirky winemakers, Jacques Reynaud [of Chateau Rayas] and Joe Heitz.  I also had an opportunity to have lunch at the café with Angelo Gaja. … The one winery that I wish I had collected was Henri Jayer.”

Nancy Norling: “My next dream, I want to become a wine goddess like Heidi Barrett or Helen Turley or Mia Klein of Dalla Valle.”

Diane Rucker: “We started off [sampling wines that were] mostly French, because we had the theory that French wine was good wine. We found that that actually wasn’t something we liked at the time. So we switched to Australia, and that worked really well for new wines to try. That gave us more of a ‘here’s the fruit, do you like it or not?’ Then we moved to California.”

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