Gerald D Boyd On Wine

For the next several weeks, the 19 AVAs in Sonoma County will be featured in the Sonoma Series. Most of the attention will be focused on Son...

There is a lot of talk circulating in wine circles about terroir: what is it and how does it affect wine?  Terroir is one of those untransla...

Who knew that Malbec, a mostly unknown grape, had the power to help transform the wine economy of a South American country? Although approac...

The bulk of wine produced in Australia comes from four states: Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. To read abo...

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A few years ago, I was sitting at a table with some members of the Wente wine family, at their restaurant in Livermore. The interview was go...

Western Australia, the huge state that makes up one-third of the entire country-continent, has one of the most remote wine regions on the pl...

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...