Gerald D Boyd On Wine

Dear Readers, Writing a blog can be challenging. When you finish writing and click on Publish, you put yourself out there for sharpshotters ...

"My California Wine Adventures 4" told of my visits to Heitz Wine Cellars and Joseph Phelps Vineyards, neighboring wineries along ...

  The other day, I was scrolling through a recent edition of "Wine Industry Network" and stopped at the shocking news of the passi...

               Soave was the first Italian white wine to attain international recognition, and today it is Italy's best known white wine...

                                       On fabled California highway 101, south of San Jose, the road passes through  Monterey County, past e...

I n the last installment (posted August 4), my wine adventures in Colorado ended with tastings of two classic French wines. Then, at last, i...

In the early 1970s, when I was trying to get my head around wine, Zinfandel was the first California red wine that got my full attention.  B...

When I first became aware of Spanish wine, in the late 1970s, there were two choices: Rioja and Sangria.  The market in Denver was flooded t...

T he second episode of my adventures in California wine (posted July 14), was about my early years in Colorado writing about wine for a news...

Wine competition -- Two words that can draw both praise and criticism.  Praise for competitions was common once, but today, the need for and...

Riesling is one of the world's great white wines. Some say that Riesling even surpasses Chardonnay in greatness.  So, why is Riesling su...