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Watch WineBoy, Episode 12, John Brown’s weekly off-the-wall four-minute webcast at thegazz.com/gazzTV, and learn some traditional — and not so traditional — food and wine pairings. He’ll also recommend a really nice cabernet sauvignon. This week’s special guest from Brown’s Land of Id is cowboy oenophile Spud Dumplin, who shares “chuck wagon picks” for desert…

Fall is upon us and with the cooler weather the number of indoor activities naturally increases. Consequently, there are a greater number of wine tastings, gourmet-wine dinners and other gastronomic events around our beautiful state. Whether you decide to stay close to home or travel, there are some nice events on the horizon for wine…

Maturity is certainly not one of WineBoy’s personal attributes. But in episode 11 of John Brown’s weekly wine webshow with attitude — click here to watch — he’ll demonstrate the proper manner to evaluate and serve mature wines. Be sure to catch this latest webcast of Brown’s part educational, part zany weekly four-minute show featuring…

Coppola’s “Director’s Cut” Zinfandel is a perfect companion to the grilled pork chop recipe below With the arrival of fall, my thoughts turn to richer textured wines and fuller-flavored edibles, including all manner of grilled meat dishes that just seem to go so well with this time of year. But just as I began to…

You know what makes WineBoy mad, really mad? Watch the webcast of WineBoy 9 by clicking here as host John Brown discusses the proper serving temperature of wine while lamenting how few restaurants – even the fancy-shmancy ones- pay attention to this very important aspect of wine appreciation. He’ll also tell you about a very…

Over the past several months, I have had the pleasure of tasting a number of excellent wines for all things WineBoy, including this blog, the “WineBoy” webcast and the “Main Ingredient” column in the Sunday Gazette-Mail. You may have seen the reviews of a few of these wines in the Main Ingredient, but in case…

As much as I try not to, I sometimes slip into ‘winespeak’ in describing the hues, smells and tastes of a wine that — when the adjectives are stripped away — is either good, OK, or unpleasant. People often ask me why wine writers feel compelled to go to such great lengths and use such…

Show 7 of WineBoy, the informative, off-the-wall wine appreciation show of The Charleston Gazette is now online, featuring new show sponsor Blues BBQ Restaurant, right across from the Clay Center. Host John Brown takes on the question of the day: Why is it a good thing to air our your red wine?

Is it Real or is it Really Vito’s Thunder Mountain Chablis? New Yorker Magazine’s Patrick Radden Keefe in his “Reporter at Large” column recently explored the rarified world of collecting ancient bottles of wine (read article here). Specifically, Radden focused on bottles purchased at auction by multi-millionaire Bill Koch which were purported to be from…

In episode 6 of “WineBoy,” host John Brown heads ups to Robert Wong’s Bridge Road Bistro for a tasty pairing of wine and food. Executive chef Paco Aceves shares with Brown a chicken penne pasta dish from the Bistro’s recently revised menu. Brown pairs it with a French red wine from a new wine list…