Gerald D Boyd On Wine

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 Subscribers, My recent blog, "Recycled Wine Buying Advice," was emailed by Mailchimp on Oct. 25, but it was not received by some ...

    The following is a piece on wine buying from a magazine article I wrote in 2013.  A few changes have been made to bring it up to date,...

Sprawling along the west side of the Sierra Nevada mountains, the Sierra Foothills wine region offers wine drinkers variety and diversity.  ...

    You may not have noticed, but the wine industry is in a tizzy about shrinking wine sales and by extension, the desertion of wine drinker...

Every wine-producing country in the world has a premier region.  Most countries have one area that stands above the rest: in Argentina it...

                Mention Tuscany and most wine drinkers think of Chianti, or maybe  Brunello di Montalcino, or Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. ...

  The Burgundian truffle sniffer I'm often asked by well-meaning people: "What's your favorite wine?" I could dismiss the...

Argentine wine is usually colored red, as in Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon.  In Argentina,  a glass of red wine is just the thing to enjoy w...

It's summer and you're on your dream vacation in Rome.  The Eternal City can be like a sauna in the peak summer months, leaving visi...

Beaujolais is the Rodney Dangerfield of wine.  For those readers too young to remember Rodney Dangerfield; he was a hilarious television com...

Dessert wines, so-called stickies that most people agonize over,  don't easily fit into a meal or a wine event.  Planning a meal with mu...