Gerald D Boyd On Wine

      Collectors are a passionate lot.  They want to know everything there is to know about their passion, from  major points to the finest ...

  Few California wine regions have a mixed history as Monterey.  In the early 1970s, some Monterey wines were said to have the dreaded ...

         For years, we have been told that our thought process is a matter of independent left and right brain. That is, the left hemisphere...

Throughout the history of the United States,  Americans have enthusiastically produced and grown a lot of things.  And, we've  relied he...

                                  For a fan of Italian wine, there are many choices to select from, even with looming tariffs. Italy is awas...

French o ak forest   For a long time, I've been curious about the relationship of wine and wood, more specifically wine and oak.   Does ...

   Hop yard with climbers In 1840, Cyrus Alexander headed west from his home in Illinois to set down roots in northern California.   He sett...

    Life is good along France's posh Mediterranean coast.  Seafood is plentiful, orchards and gardens are bountiful and the vineyards o...

Note: An odd usage convention refers in print to a certain German river and wine region(s). For the English speaker, Rhine (river) is easier...

   Are Champagne houses pricing their bubbly out of the U.S. wine market?  It's a timely question, since sales of the elite French fizz ...

Ask a wine savvy person to name the birthplace of the Malbec grape and they are likely to  say Argentina.  That's because the South Amer...