Gerald D Boyd On Wine

Portugal, the narrow western part of the Iberian Peninsula, is the source of two of the most distinctive fortified wines in the world.  Port...

(Handley Cellars image) In the early days of the California wine ascendancy, Napa and Sonoma were going full throttle while Mendocino lagged...

In 1820, Australian wine making got its start at Farm Cove, in what is today the thriving modern city of Sydney, in the state of New South W...

                    Are you under the sway of the Chardonnay mystique?   You're not alone and I wonder why. It's not a secret that C...

R ecently, I read a notice about Joseph Phelps Vineyards changing ownership and it made me think of "The Colorado Wine Barons," an...

    A couple of weeks ago, I got Covid and ever since I have been bothered with persistent fatique.  At times I have trouble standing and my...

"Yarra Valley is a place of extreme beauty, of constantly changing light, of colour and mood...Once you've seen it you cannot hel...

The other day, I was thinking about Spanish red wines and how they differ in weight from light to heavy. And it occurred to me that the rela...

Sunflowers and lavender Could it be that the combination of Provence olive oil, garlic and rose wine is what encouraged someone to think up ...

The series "My Life in Wine," ended with Episode 30, on May 27, 2022.  MLIW was a brief glimpse at the years I spent writing about...

At one time, the history of Italian wine making recorded white wine as being far different than it is today.  The wines of antiquity, writte...

Wine has been associated with human evolution for centuries. So, it figures that there are numerous tales, big and small, true and not, conn...