Gerald D Boyd On Wine

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Thursday, March 24, 2022

The spicy Traminer

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Gewurtraminer ready for picking If there is a grape and wine that has it all, it would be Gewurztraminer.  Opulently aromatic, exotically fl...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

My Life in Wine Episode 27

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T he last episode of "My Like in Wine" (25 Feb) was about the joys and disappointments of winery touring and included a visit to F...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

The Birthplace of Australian Wine

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                          What a difference a few hundred years makes in a city.  It's 1791 in the Governor's garden in Sydney, New ...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

A Different Sauvignon Blanc

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  "I think its fair to say that New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc changed the wine world by changing our ideas of what wine could be like, ju...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

My Life in Wine Episode 26

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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...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

An Argentine Resurrection

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                     In Argentina's Mendoza Valley, at the foot of the Andes mountains, a resurrection in the vineyard has been taking p...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Washington's Promising Reds

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  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...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

My Life in Wine Episoode 25

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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...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Tempting Tempranillo

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            The vineyard in the photo above is one of many throughout Spain growing old-vine Tempranillo.  While yields from these gnarled b...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

2121 Recap

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  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...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

My Life in Wine Episode 24

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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...
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Gerald D. Boyd On Wine
Anacortes, Washington, United States
I have been actively writing about wine and spirits since the late 1960s and have traveled extensively to all of the major wine regions in the world. My byline has appeared in various newspapers including the Rocky Mountain News, San Francisco Chronicle and Santa Rosa Press Democrat. I was editor of the Wine Spectator in the early years, editor of Wine & Spirits Buying Guide (later renamed Wine & Spirits Magazine) and have contributed to various other national and international magazines. I have been a professional wine judge since 1968, serving on panels at major wine competitions in the United States, Australia, Belgium, Italy, South Africa and China. And I was an adjunct wine instructor in the Wine Studies program, Santa Rosa Junior College, California for 12 years.
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About Me

Gerald D. Boyd On Wine
Anacortes, Washington, United States
I have been actively writing about wine and spirits since the late 1960s and have traveled extensively to all of the major wine regions in the world. My byline has appeared in various newspapers including the Rocky Mountain News, San Francisco Chronicle and Santa Rosa Press Democrat. I was editor of the Wine Spectator in the early years, editor of Wine & Spirits Buying Guide (later renamed Wine & Spirits Magazine) and have contributed to various other national and international magazines. I have been a professional wine judge since 1968, serving on panels at major wine competitions in the United States, Australia, Belgium, Italy, South Africa and China. And I was an adjunct wine instructor in the Wine Studies program, Santa Rosa Junior College, California for 12 years.
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