Gerald D Boyd On Wine

French o ak forest   For a long time, I've been curious about the relationship of wine and wood, more specifically wine and oak.   Does ...

   Hop yard with climbers In 1840, Cyrus Alexander headed west from his home in Illinois to set down roots in northern California.   He sett...

    Life is good along France's posh Mediterranean coast.  Seafood is plentiful, orchards and gardens are bountiful and the vineyards o...

Note: An odd usage convention refers in print to a certain German river and wine region(s). For the English speaker, Rhine (river) is easier...

   Are Champagne houses pricing their bubbly out of the U.S. wine market?  It's a timely question, since sales of the elite French fizz ...

Ask a wine savvy person to name the birthplace of the Malbec grape and they are likely to  say Argentina.  That's because the South Amer...

   There is Bordeaux red wine and then there is Bordeaux red wine.  By that, I mean classified growth wines from the Medoc and Cru Bourgeois...

                                                                          Wikipedia Until recently, interest in wine was making slow but st...

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    Vin Jaune in a clavelin with Comte cheese   Imagine how boring life would be if the only wine you had to drink was Chardonnay, or Cabern...

                                      With the holidays now a fading memory, my thoughts turn back to the aged wines enjoyed at the Boyd fam...