Gerald D Boyd On Wine

Few Italian wines attract the acclaim given to Barolo and Barbaresco, arguably Italy's greatest red wines and the pride of Piemonte.  Cr...

Few wines are weighted down with more romantic legend than the great Hungarian Tokaj. Made first in the 13th century, Tokaj is an extraordin...

Lately, I've had the feeling that Chardonnay has eased into complacency. Twenty years ago, Chardonnay was a major item of discussion in ...

What would you say is Spain's most dominant red wine grape...Garnacha? Good guess, but the grape planted in more places is Tempranillo; ...

                     In the late 18th century, the noted English essayist Samuel Johnson wrote these insightful lines: "A man who has n...

One of the oddities of wine culture is that very few wines taste of the grapes they are made from. Noted exceptions are two of the many Musc...

                     To say that Pinot Noir is not considered a "big" wine, like Syrah, begs a few words of explanation. Describin...

Stand anywhere in the Napa Valley, face to the northeast and in the distance is a line of low hills, known as the Vaca Mountains.  The hills...

Note: I was one key stroke from finishing a piece on the wines of Lake County, when like a magician's disappearing trick, the words vani...

                           What do Pinot Blanc and Rodney Dangerfield have in common?  Neither one gets any respect.  Okay, so you don't...

One of the knocks you hear about wine from people who don't drink wine (and even a few who do) is wine people are too serious.  They cla...

                                    In the late 1990s, Lodi was not a name high on my list of wine regions to visit. There was a reference t...