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WINYL


Hosted by former Rolling Stone staff writer and New York Times Bestselling author Anthony Bozza, Winyl is where wine meets music. In each episode, a life-changing record chosen by our guest is paired with a wine chosen by our host. Offbeat, educational, and candid, Winyl is wine and music education wrapped in offbeat, witty, and illuminating banter. Recorded live in our studio inside Sauced wine bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Winyl features guests involved in the arts or food and beverage world, all of whom share our passion for music, wine, and creativity.

Jun 9, 2022

For over a decade Jared Scharff was the lead guitarist for the Saturday Night Live Band, as he still was when we did this interview during the freewheeling, pre-pandemic Before Times. He has since left the show and relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a songwriter, a session musician, and a solo artist, releasing music under the name Pearl Lion. The move seems to have paid off: on his own and as part of the production team Queen Sixties, Scharff has been a part of four albums that debuted at Number 1 in the past two years, by a diverse range of artists from Da Baby to Machine Gun Kelly.
 
Jared joined Anthony to discuss Radiohead's iconic 1997 masterpiece Ok Computer. An album of this depth, magnitude, and detail required adequate and appropriate fortification, so Anthony chose two huge names in California Zinfandel, to reflect the album's moody grace and dead-serious themes:  a 2018 Ridge East Bench Zin and a 2015 Ravenswood Big River Zin. Two expressions of the same varietal were chosen to mirror both the album's ethereal, angelic harmonies and its gloomy, deep, and dour dissection of contemporary consumer culture.
 
Guest: Jared Scharff
Album: Radiohead, Ok Computer
Wine: Ridge, East Bench Zin 2018 and Ravenswood, Big River Zin, 2015