Gerald D Boyd On Wine

Chardonnay in the shade No one reading this little essay will be surprised to hear that Chardonnay remains the nation's best selling whi...

Storm clouds over Barossa vineyard In South Australia, a short distance from Adelaide, is a wine region with an international reputation, ...

A Tuscan house on a hill In 1996, the saturated genre of lifestyle books was rocked by the release of "Under the Tuscan Sun," a gl...

              Gewürztraminer, the wine you hate to love, is primed to make your summer more pleasurable. Loving a fruity white wine with a s...

    Chablis is unique in French wine. The celebrated Burgundian white wine district is officially part of the region of Burgundy, yet, curio...

     There is a special dynamic that develops in families with multiple siblings, where one son or daughter excels over the others.  It'...

  France's northern Rhone Valley has a well deserved reputation for red wine.  The litany of Syrah based wines, like Cote Rotie, Hermita...

      Sometimes, a widely-planted grape variety, like Airen, is not the most popular in the area or country where it is planted.  The Spanis...

Orvieto There is an attraction to Italy that's hard to put into words.  Countless visitors to the sun-washed Mediterranean country have ...

      There are many satisfying things about wine and the multitude of Muscats is one of them.  Muscats are among the oldest wine grapes on ...

       St. Emilion is a city, resting on a plateau, built from the inside out. Beginning in the 8th century, workers began to dig a maze of ...

     Californians have a friendly disagreement about which part of their state is the "real" California: Northern California or So...

Readers,  I have had on-going computer problems, which, hopefully are now resolved. The blog originally scheduled for June 27, about the win...