Gerald D Boyd On Wine

Port is a fortified wine born of a trade war in the 17th century between English and French tradesmen.  Now, hundreds of years have passed, ...

South of Portland, Oregon, running for 150 miles alongside the Willamette River, is the  famous Willamette Valley and its world famous wine....

                                                             Recently, my Copy Editor and I had lunch with an old friend and his wife.  We m...

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Modern society, at least in the west, has been accused many times of not valuing its senior members.  Tim Atkin MW, an insightful British wi...

Ever since wine first got its sparkle in the 17th century, the trend has been to sip a glass of bubbly only on special occasions.  Despite r...

  Every year, as the holiday season approaches, I make a pitch for Gamay as a good wine choice with the holiday turkey (aka, "The Bird...

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    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,...