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I must take issue with my friends Tara and Rob who, in a recent “Main Ingredient” column for the Sunday Gazette-Mail, suggested there is a double standard at play when it comes to wines for drinking and wines for cooking: “If we’re going to pay a lot for a bottle of bliss that’s been coaxed…

ED. NOTE: We’ve got a blogfecta (blog + trifecata) of posts on the dining/drinking experience. After reading this one, check out Rich Ireland’s “Beers To You” post on how restaurants routinely ruin good beers. And food blogger Brooke Brown weighs in with a plaintive cry about servers manhandling the glassware. Over the years, I’ve sipped…

Going to the WVU-Louisville game next week? Go a day early and join the fine folks at the “Slight Indulgence” wine shop in Morgantown for a special tasting and dinner at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7.  Joe Elchik from Francis Ford Coppola Vineyards will lead the tasting and guest chef Jason Blosser will prepare special…

Join host John Brown as WineBoy, Episode 13, visits Wilson Ward’s Fisher Ridge Winery in Putnam County to explore the art of making wine in West Virginia. You’ll get the inside scoop on how wine is created — from the vineyard to the fermenting vats to the press and into the barrel. And you won’t…

With Halloween just a week away, I thought it would be good to share some ghoulishly delicious information with you on things related to blood and wine. Over the years, I have reported on the French Paradox — a research study that demonstrated a link between wine consumption (particularly red wine) and a reduced risk…

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…