Betsy Stover (Why Mommy Drinks, Teacher’s Lounge) joins this week to whine about the terrible etiquette surrounding iPhones. Because new-school tech needs old-school etiquette they pair this with a wine from sponsor Gregory Condes that is a collar between an old-school wine family and a new scholar of enology: 2015 Domaine du Roncée Chinon.
Ellen’s hip sip tip is actually a cocktail book, Kara Newman’s “Road Soda”, especially the Rome with a View Cocktail. Shaughn’s hip sip tip is another white pinot noir from Gutzler.
They read the results (so far) from what people are buying at the grocery store and the results go from Trader Joe’s ideas to what is available in Spain!
Betsy fills Ellen and Shaughn in on all the ways the upcoming generation (which she is helping raise!) need help when it comes to cellphone etiquette. Jacques, the moody French Monsieur and Adam Levine, in disguise as a moody french man, drop in.
The lightning round covers: where else in the Touraine cab franc is grown, what the baby-in-bar laws are, and…well who even cares about alluvial soil? Besides the elf on a shelf but…