Gerald D Boyd On Wine

Episode 25 (Feb 4) was all about the joys and disappointments of wine travel, such as rounding a corner in a Barcelona neighborhood and find...

                     In Argentina's Mendoza Valley, at the foot of the Andes mountains, a resurrection in the vineyard has been taking p...

  There was a time when New York state was second, behind California, in U.S. wine production.  But then Washington state vaulted up the lis...

The last episode had MLIW veer off the path for a quick look at "A Winemaker in Training."  A directional correction is made in th...

            The vineyard in the photo above is one of many throughout Spain growing old-vine Tempranillo.  While yields from these gnarled b...

  Every year at about this time, columnists and contributing writers like to look back at the past year and recall major events, or what the...

In Episode 23, The U.S Air Force had decided to temporarily transfer me from the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian chain, where wine options we...

                        When Americans first "discovered" wine in the 1970s, some enterprising dreamers imagined that certain clas...

  Dear Subscribers, You've probably noticed that there was no blog in your inbox this week.  I could blame the problem on Covid (it is b...

Back in the Dark Ages of wine interest, that would be the 1960s or thereabout, the only Chilean wine I remember seeing in stores was a Riesl...

In Episode 22 of this personal journey, the narrative veered off the wine trail for a brief look at single malt Scotch whisky, a drink I thi...

Holy holly!  It's that time of year again and we're all trying not to look at the calendar.   It won't work. Christmas will be h...