When visual artist Alexandra Grant established grantLOVE in 2008, the idea was to support artists — long undervalued in American culture — with materials, production costs, and direct stipends to continue their work. She had trademarked her LOVE symbol in 2012, which became the throughline of a series of jewelry, apparel, home goods, limited-edition prints, and neons. Last year, grantLOVE partnered with Pledge to provide donors with transparency and to extend the fund’s reach. A portion of sales from each grantLOVE product goes to support the programs of nonprofit partners.

From the early days of this work, Grant knew she wanted to find a woman-led vineyard to collaborate with her and visual artists interested in the same conversation: how to support the curiosity and creativity of others. Enter J Vineyards’ Estate Director and Head Winemaker, Nicole Hitchcock, who climbed the formidable Gallo ladder all the way to the top. Hitchcock is one of the best winemakers in the U.S., (Grant calls her a “sparkling savant”), and her legendary sparkling wine can compete with the best bottles out of Champagne. Together, the two women have created LOVE Wine — each new bottling will have a label designed by a woman-identified artist as a gesture of transforming the simple act of enjoying wine into an experience that immerses people in the culture of both art and wine. The label for the inaugural release, a brut cuvée whose blend was chosen by Hitchcock and Grant, was designed by Genevieve Gaignard, a biracial multidisciplinary artist whose work speaks to class, race, and cultural identity.

In a time when the center doesn’t seem to be holding and much of the world is in chaos, the Grant, Hitchcock, Gaignard collaboration makes for a soulful LOVE triangle, bringing together art and wine to support the work of increasingly marginalized female-identified artists.

I talked with Grant last month, and she described the evolution of this idea: “You know, there’s an aspect of wisdom that you just wait for — the click happens — in this case, the values-alignment and curiosity about the wine world and its parallels with art came together.” She’d had other wine collaboration offers, but they didn’t seem right. She had the patience to wait for the right moment, and when all these angles dovetailed together, the LOVE Wine project was born. Grant also says, “I hadn’t expected to launch this wine in the context of the present moment. And here we are, in this insane time, in the present, and I’m asking, ‘what am I tasting, what am I smelling, what am I feeling?’ and there’s a freshness to what this is that I can’t even put my finger on.” Of course, there’s no need to name it if it works, and this collaboration surely seems to have legs. One of its chief values is to ground and center us, to gather us around shared values, and to bring us back to the present moment, in which there is joy despite the chaos.

LOVE Wine ($50) is available for purchase at J Vineyards’ tasting room in Healdsburg, California and also online, and 1/3 of the profits will go directly to support women in the arts.