Gerald D Boyd On Wine

In case you missed it, the 20th anniversary of the Merlot-bashing movie "Sideways" just passed.  No one could have predicted that ...

For years, the mere mention of Spanish wine to an American wine drinker meant  red wine, and maybe a little pink. Foremost, were the big red...

This is not a post about a fiddle-playing Roman or the antics of two Italian cinema adventurers.  Nero and Nerello are the names of two grap...

                               The other day, I was sitting at my computer, staring at the screen, hoping for the inspiration I needed to st...

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...