Man Cave Happy Hour
Welcome to Man Cave Happy Hour – Whiskey, Spirits, and the stories that go along with them. Join Jamie, Matt, and August as we broadcast live in studio and from our favorite lounges, pubs, distilleries, and happy hours. We will talk to distillers, ambassadors, entrepreneurs, bartenders, mixologists, the people that make and enjoy spirits and cocktails. Produced at the Podcast Your Voice Studios
Man Cave Happy Hour
Festive Flavors: Holiday Wine and Food Pairings with Mrs. Vino
Join us for a festive celebration on the Man Cave Happy Hour as we explore the delightful world of holiday pairings with our special guest, Kristin Carlson, known affectionately as Mrs. Vino. Together with hosts Jamie Flanagan, August Gitschlag, and Matt Fox, we dive into the heart of Detroit’s vibrant culinary scene, showcasing delectable chocolates from Bon Bon Bon and a charcuterie board from Monger's Provisions. This episode promises to elevate your holiday gatherings with insights on selecting the perfect wines, from rich reds and crisp whites to the effervescent charm of champagne, ensuring your festive table is both memorable and delicious.
https://bonbonbon.com/
https://mongersprovisions.com/
https://mrsvino.com/
Listeners will discover the magic of pairing champagne with a variety of foods, celebrating its adaptability. Explore the unique collaboration between Bon Bon Bon and Mawby Sparkling, where wine is transformed into bonbons, capturing Detroit's entrepreneurial spirit. We share techniques for serving champagne, such as aeration, and suggest budget-friendly alternatives like cava. Our spirited conversation spills over into traditions involving bubbly, the allure of dessert wines like port, and the rising popularity of ice wines from Michigan’s Mission Peninsula, offering a sweet yet balanced profile perfect for holiday festivities.
In a journey through wines and culinary indulgence, we chat about the art of pairing Chardonnay with charcuterie, uncovering the nuances of oak treatments in wines. Our lively discussion touches on the social etiquette of holiday gift-giving, the joy of wine tasting, and the playful yet humorous side of food pairings. As we reminisce about memorable moments and personal anecdotes, there's plenty of laughter and shared camaraderie, creating an atmosphere of togetherness and appreciation for fine wines and good company. So grab a glass, settle in, and toast to a joyous holiday season with us!
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David Wright: 0:02
I said hey, hey welcome to the man Cave Happy Hour. I said, hey, hey, welcome to the man Cave Happy.
Matt Fox: 0:14
Hour.
Jamie Flanagan: 0:16
We're gonna drink a fine whiskey and smoke a really fine cigar. It is time for Happy Hour. It is the man Cave Happy Hour Whiskey, cigar, spirits, the stories that go along with it. I'm Jamie Flanagan.
August Gitschlag: 0:31
That over there is August Gitchland. Matt Fox over there beat me to it.
Jamie Flanagan: 0:36
And we're getting ready for the holidays. Gentlemen, it's beginning to look a lot like.
August Gitschlag: 0:41
Christmas.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 0:42
Whole.
Jamie Flanagan: 0:44
Favorite Christmas movie ever thank you, hans uh, you know I'm thinking about, uh, you know what to do for the the holidays? Because, uh, lots of mixing and mingling and and cocktails.
August Gitschlag: 0:56
Now the uh, the, the spirits ads hit the tv hard. You're getting your amaretto ads and you're getting champagne ads will all start popping up pretty soon.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:04
You never see those any other time of the year, you know so, and when we start talking wine, because we do a lot of wine around the holidays, uh, we got to bring in mrs vino hi guys uh, chris and carlson kristin, thanks for uh being back on the man kid.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:16
We had so much fun last time I know I had such a blast with all of you and I finally get to meet matt yes, absolutely, thank you.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:23
Bring it to you, bring it to you, there it is um, yeah, so thank you for having me back again.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:27
I'm excited to you know kind of delve and explore some uh holiday pairings with some detroit represented businesses that's it, and we're gonna get into, uh, some fun, fun fron from bon bon bon chocolates.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:41
Did, uh, did she sign?
August Gitschlag: 1:44
the waiver now that Matt's here, he's not alone within a hundred feet of a senior citizen center.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:50
Uh, you know certain uh trade secrets trade secrets, ah yes, but uh, so coming up, we're, we're doing, we're doing some, we're doing some food tastings, uh so, so we have a connected lady with us. Fun, fun, fun from Bon Bon Bon Chocolates, and then we have a nice charcuterie board tray from Monger's.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 2:10
Provisions. I always miss that.
Jamie Flanagan: 2:13
I was like prescriptions, monger's Provisions, and so this is a lovely tray of food. We're going to talk about both of those because you're connected with both and you got us hooked up with these.
August Gitschlag: 2:25
This is the next level. This isn't taking the styrofoam or the little plastic top off. The Meyer thing with the little cut cheeses and some stuff. This is the kind you're proud to bring to a party, not the one you bring into the summer jam. This is a gift for them.
Jamie Flanagan: 2:41
The bonbons are down there. There you go. The board is there. It's good stuff. We're going to dive into these and try them and taste them.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 2:56
I've been sitting here way too long without a cocktail. Hang on.
Jamie Flanagan: 3:00
I've got you covered, not cocktail-wise, kristen. We're going to talk about hosting gifts, what to take, and we're going to talk about the food and all kinds of stuff today, but what are we going to start with as far as? Because we have some red wines, we got some whites and we got some champagne.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 3:14
Yes, of course. So you know I love very excited to get into this because this one that Alex had given to us houses, I think about like 21 different Bon. Bons, I was guessing 20, but 21 would be a more fun number, yeah, so oh my gosh, you guys, we got to get a, you got to zoom in on that. So, while we're looking at those, yeah, look at that, that's crazy.
August Gitschlag: 3:57
They've always had such killer packaging.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 4:00
Yeah, so I was first exposed to Bon Bon Bon and, uh, you know what they do when I worked up North for for Mawby Sparkling, and they actually took one of our wines and made it into a Bon Bon, which was really cool. So, uh, you know, we always love supporting local and you know small businesses, so that's why I reached out to them.
Matt Fox: 4:27
Um, and then oh, got it, I got it, I got you.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 4:31
Go on, continue, chris and then uh, and then same with mongers too. So just you know, showcasing uh detroit businesses and and yeah, the bon bon bon, uh, all different flavor, different variations.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 4:43
yeah so the Bon Bon Bon, all different, flavor different variations, yeah, so the nice thing about champagne, specifically one, it's a starter, right. This is what you want to start with when you have your holiday parties, when people are coming in, I know a lot of individuals will actually take champagne and St Germain, so the elderflower liqueur, and kind of make jamie, this is up your alley, kind of like a cocktail out of it um, so we're gonna.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 5:09
So I'm gonna start this, start this party off right, and I know that you guys like loud noises on here, but I am a professional, I gotta do it quietly.
August Gitschlag: 5:19
I know, I want anyone to hear hang.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 5:22
Maybe do you want me to pop it. Yeah, pop it.
Jamie Flanagan: 5:25
Pop it.
Matt Fox: 5:26
Hey, there we are Solid, best one Should I tilt?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 5:30
No, no, no, Just keep it down. One of the sommelier's worst nightmares is when people move the glass around. Yeah, thank you, thank you, that's perfect. Yeah, so we'll start with the champagne. So, so, this is coming out of Reem's friend.
Jamie Flanagan: 5:47
So so it's champagne. So it's actually. It can be called champagne, it is yeah.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 5:53
So it is actual champagne and this one is a blend. So Piper Hedzik is known for, you know, being a very old champagne house, and this one that we have it's, uh, this old champagne.
August Gitschlag: 6:10
Can we get some fresh new champagne?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 6:14
no, the whole point. You have to age it. So there's all these no rules and regulations. And which grapes can go in here? So this one's going to be pinot noir, pinot meunier and then some chardonnay so what's the reason why you just spun?
Matt Fox: 6:28
oh, I'm glass like that I'm aerating it.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 6:30
I forgot you're. You and I are meeting for the first time, so I might repeat something so yeah, so aerating it and these specific glasses matt, so these are reedle crystal and the opening is, uh, it's it's pretty tight, uh, but these are good for sparkling white and red.
August Gitschlag: 6:50
So here, guys, I want, I want to cheers, I want to cheers. We got to explain to matt that she's not saying air raid like in uh, dazed and confused, and make all the freshman girls jump on the ground and don't it's not air raid.
Matt Fox: 7:01
It's air raid, air raiding. Thank you, you're welcome.
August Gitschlag: 7:04
Thanks for the clarification it's a whole different show when matt's here and I can pick on him.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 7:08
It's kind of my job oh yeah, that's beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
Matt Fox: 7:14
Wow, yeah, so they've been around since 1785 wow, 1785, that's right I have some more.
David Wright: 7:21
Oh yeah, just at the moment.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 7:22
We got so much to try I was gonna say we have, we have plenty so the nice thing about champagne, and then obviously, uh, cheese and charcuterie boards. This goes with everything. It complements the salty, it complements the acid, it complements the, the fat from the speck or the salami. Um, and then I think that, honestly, I think I want to pick one of these bonbons, because I'm really excited to try one of these.
Jamie Flanagan: 7:49
What are some of the names? Wait till you see one of these out of the box.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 7:51
Yeah. So let me, yeah, let me read Before you do real quick.
Jamie Flanagan: 7:54
I was holding them up to the yeah, Before we opened this bottle you had said that folks serve bonbons, a starter.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 8:08
Did you say that? No, champagne, champagne, okay, yeah, no, no, no, like, no. When people come over to your house, like this is, it's something nice to have. You don't have to do champagne. So if this is out of your price point, a cava so a cava, you know, is a sparkling spanish. Uh, you can do a sparkling wine from you know, like grue, which is, uh, you know, out in New Mexico. They're a very old sparkling house.
Jamie Flanagan: 8:27
Yeah, bubbles, man, that's the way to go Christmas Day, when Colleen and I are getting ready for everybody, we're usually into the champagne before the turkey's in the oven. It's usually right after the first cup of coffee.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 8:42
Sometimes, in lieu of I was going to say is there anything in the coffee?
Jamie Flanagan: 8:46
we're into it. We're in something. I just noticed somebody put a little meme up on uh, but the the parents in uh a christmas story.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 8:55
Uh, christmas day, they're sitting there with wine while they're opening presents I I had never noticed that before they're drinking, so they were drinking ports at night too. So after all, the kids are in bed. They were sitting there with that little glass. That's Port.
August Gitschlag: 9:08
That's a dessert wine, they weren't Sauternes. Well, I mean it depends on how fancy you got Another bottle, that's kind of name. That's kind of gone away over the last 40, 50 years.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 9:18
Well, you know, it's coming back, that trend of you know know, sauternes or port, or madeira. Uh, you know the dessert wines I and we'll talk a little bit about, uh, one of the wines, well, I have a few from chateau chantal, but bob of chateau chantal, he opened it, he drinks port.
David Wright: 9:36
Uh, quite often, uh, quite often yeah that's my drag show name is it chateau?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 9:43
chantal, I was gonna say that was my nickname in college.
August Gitschlag: 9:44
I usually say that's my drag show name. Is it Chateau Chantel?
Jamie Flanagan: 9:45
I was going to say that was my nickname in college. I usually say that.
August Gitschlag: 9:48
That's my jam too. Yeah, I thought you were going to say Port was your nickname but go on.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 9:51
Yeah, so do you want me to read some of these off?
Jamie Flanagan: 9:57
Yeah, yeah. What's in the box. What's in the box?
August Gitschlag: 10:03
What's in?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 10:03
the box it's not a head, it's not one, no, it's not guanapaltro's head. So this one I found really, really interesting. So this one's called mustachio, so it's moscato caramel which, as you know, moscato is a grape and it's a sweet wine. Uh, pistachio dark chocolate. I.
Jamie Flanagan: 10:20
I want to try that one he was the bad lion on the lion king I want, want that one, oh Mufasa.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 10:25
Oh yeah, that's different, that's different Do you want to split that one, you take the first bite.
August Gitschlag: 10:30
No, no, no, you're fine. I'm just admiring the word hamtramck going across. I know, I know. Representing.
Jamie Flanagan: 10:43
I've known Alex who, so Bon Bon Bon. Where are people finding the Bon Bon Bon?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 10:48
So they're in Midtown, okay, and then they also have.
August Gitschlag: 10:53
Born in Hamtramck.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 10:55
Yeah, so well.
August Gitschlag: 10:55
Hamtramck isn't open to the public anymore. That's only by appointment. They do like cooking classes there. And it's like their big manufacturing facility. I know they're in Ann Arbor. They have two downtown. There's a midtown, there's one in another building, then there's a eastern market. Every once in a while they're in the sheds, um, and then I know boston has just been reopened up.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 11:14
Yeah, I saw that on their website, so here I'm gonna open. I'm gonna open one of these. Jamie, if you want to crack that camera, oh my gosh, you guys, it has a mustache on it. It it does. Look at that, you can just hold it up.
Jamie Flanagan: 11:25
That's the camera you're in. Look at that.
Matt Fox: 11:27
All right, hang on, we're going to zoom in.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 11:29
That's going to blow that up.
Jamie Flanagan: 11:31
Oh, the mustachio.
August Gitschlag: 11:34
It's got a mustache. All right, they made us mustaches, they made us mustaches on sticks for my Magnum PI party, oh yeah.
Jamie Flanagan: 11:44
I grabbed the bumpy cake. I grabbed bumpy.
August Gitschlag: 11:47
There's another cake, bon Bon 11.
Jamie Flanagan: 11:50
Oh, they're all numbers, so you can order them by number Right. So I grabbed the number 11, the bumpy, and it's a fudge. Chocolate cake, cream, buttercream, frosting.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 12:01
Oh, my gosh Fudgy chocolate Okay.
Jamie Flanagan: 12:04
August. If anybody wants part of this one, I can grab a knife and cut it in half.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 12:11
Alcohol kills germs, so I think we're going to be okay.
Jamie Flanagan: 12:13
I got number three, all right Number three.
August Gitschlag: 12:15
Well, this one's called Sagittarius and it is coming up on my birthday.
Jamie Flanagan: 12:20
Oh, Sagittarius birthday, august Palooza is on the way. That's right. The bumpy cake has a bumpy cake. Look to it.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 12:28
Oh, that's fun yeah.
August Gitschlag: 12:30
This one's a Tuzu honey, citrus, madeleine ganache, ruby, chocolate drizzle. Oh my gosh Stuffing things. It's got lots.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 12:40
Oh, look at that. Yeah, isn't that amazing. I mean, they're so gorgeous, the light's kind of drowning it out.
August Gitschlag: 12:45
It's like little works of art Creamy, creamy, creamy.
Jamie Flanagan: 12:48
A coffee cake one.
August Gitschlag: 12:50
I know for a while. I don't know if they still are. They were like the pillow chocolates at every Waldorf Astoria in the country. You had a bon bon bon on your chocolate. Really, man, that's awesome, we always said about that place.
Jamie Flanagan: 13:03
Oh, I love it yeah, oh, and that's uh pairing nice with the champagne.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 13:10
Yeah, we had that.
August Gitschlag: 13:10
We had to crack into the so good, I grabbed I know, I'm not even a chocolate guy I you know what?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 13:16
I'm not a sweets person like my husband. He loves the sweets. I am more of the cheese, the meat, the crackers, but these are incredible and all I mean. They have one called Coffee and Donuts, mexican shortbread. Oh, this one, here you guys go. This is perfect for you guys. The Bourbon, bon Bon Bon, whiskey, caramel, bourbon, dark chocolate, ganache, orange flavored, it's like an old-fashioned.
August Gitschlag: 13:40
It sounds like an old-fashioned. It's an old-fashioned, that is. It's like an old-fashioned.
Jamie Flanagan: 13:42
It sounds like an old-fashioned.
August Gitschlag: 13:43
It's an old-fashioned, that is. It's an old-fashioned that sounds nice In bonbonbon form. Pass me the bubbly piece.
Jamie Flanagan: 13:47
I grabbed the hazel. What?
Matt Fox: 13:49
Hazel, what Hazel, what hey to my heart. So it looks like it's got a hazel nut in it.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 13:56
Oh, I think it does. I saw the cross section of it. You get a good cross-section on that Are these.
Jamie Flanagan: 14:01
can you like mail or to bribe these things?
August Gitschlag: 14:04
I think you can mail them, Absolutely you can, you can order them by number and they'll ship them all over the world.
Jamie Flanagan: 14:08
So if you like, want a whole box of number, because this bumpy one is crazy, I want a whole box of 11s. Or, if you want to do the taster treat, one this is very cool and used to bring us over.
August Gitschlag: 14:24
Alex would come by the bar because we were a block away. We would bring them Red Bulls every Saturday morning when their line was going out the door. In turn. On Friday nights they'd bring us all the scrap chocolate. We'd just sit there and eat amazing chocolate all night.
Matt Fox: 14:37
I just had a religious experience with the Hazel. What.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 14:40
Did you oh?
Matt Fox: 14:40
yeah, that was yummy.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 14:43
As long as it's not a nut allergy tingle.
Matt Fox: 14:47
What are you talking about?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 14:50
Nice to meet you, jordan says alcohol and chocolate.
Jamie Flanagan: 14:54
Love it. And Nadine checked in as well. Thanks, Nadine.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 15:01
Oh, thanks Mom.
Jamie Flanagan: 15:03
Great chemistry.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 15:07
Yeah, so let's tap into. I'm going to open up the Chardonnay too. We don't have to drink it right now, because I know that the bubbles are Kind of let it breathe a little bit.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 15:14
The bubbles are the best, but when you're having charcuterie, you know everybody has something that they kind of go towards, right, you know, like August and I, we're not big into the sweets. So has something that they kind of go towards, right, you know, like august and I were not big into the sweets, so maybe we'll stay away from, like the uh, the cranberries, excuse me, but you know, tapping into some of the salty, the fatty. Oh yeah, the cheese, bring it um, that will pair very nicely. So this is a, a chardonnay, la pietra. So la La Pietra means the stone in Italian. So this is a Tuscan chard, nice and crisp, nice and clean.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 15:52
So this, like I had said to you guys, this champagne that we had that had some chardonnay in it. It was mainly Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier and then some chard. So this one's just going to be 100% chardonnay from Italy and this is a great. So this is a great pairing. You know, when you're talking about holiday pairings and obviously this is more of a, you know like a snack, fast, right. But if you are looking to pair a protein or a meat, you know obviously turkey, turkey's great, chicken's great, with chard. More white meat, fish, yeah, more white meat. But again, you know I'm not a stickler on rules, it's whatever your palate likes, right? You know, if you want to have a big juicy delmonico steak and a super oaky chardonnay, go for it, go for it. So, um, go for it.
August Gitschlag: 16:45
Let me make sure this is all good. Salty fat and cheese basically describes me today. That's how.
Matt Fox: 16:52
I woke up I thought I smelled it. You smell like beef and cheese.
August Gitschlag: 16:56
Salty fat and cheesy.
Jamie Flanagan: 16:58
It was a long weekend.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 17:01
Sounds like Santa Fake Santa. Happy Monday.
Jamie Flanagan: 17:04
I smell like beef and cheese like it's my attitude salty yeah, all right and cheesy so this one's gonna come actually.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 17:13
Yeah, I'm a little crusty so this one, whenever you guys are ready. This one's got a little bit of oak, so you're gonna get a little bit of creaminess and, um, it's probably gonna be really good with that speck from mongers. So I'll talk about mongers how I, how I came to know them.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 17:29
So zach and, uh, his business partner. We met at a charity event and they had I'm not even kidding you, it was um was probably a 16 foot long table that was filled, filled with their cheese and charcuterie. So I was, I was right next to her pouring wine. So it was perfect because I didn't have to leave, I had my wine and then I had my dinner there. So I was covered for the next four hours while I was up pouring wine for people.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 18:02
So yeah, so here's some of the chard for people. So yeah, so here's some of the chard, Like I said, you can tell. You can tell that this has got oak treatment to it because it's it's more of that straw yellow.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 18:13
Compared to you know, a Chardonnay, that'll just be stainless steel and super white and bright. This one's got some butter to it, which is which is nice, you know. And that's when you know, whenever anyone orders a Chardonnay or says, oh, I prefer Chard, you got to ask them, you know, do you like something that has some oak, you know a little bit of creaminess, or do you want something super bright with, you know, a little bit more acid? So here, august, I'm going to steal this tray so that you and me can dive into this, yeah, because we're the salt, yeah, I was going to say we're the salty, we're the meat and cheese folks over here, yeah, yeah, oh, I don't want to move that camera.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 18:54
Which one did you grab the manchego?
August Gitschlag: 18:56
I don't know, just that one, yeah, oh yeah, so that's yeah.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 19:17
so manchego or monty, or four, monte Manchego addition. So we were in an article side by side and I had reached out to him again I said, hey, I haven't seen you in a couple of years. You know, uh, I'm doing this podcast and I'd like to, you know, showcase your, your small business. I'm, and, and they've been growing. You know, I just like the same story with Bon Bon Bon. Right, you start with one location and, uh, you know, as long as you're bringing something to the market and you're getting that community support and the community really supports Bon Bon Bon and Monger's provisions to the point where you know they're both expanding. You know, beyond, I mean for Bon Bon Bon, beyond the borders of Michigan.
August Gitschlag: 19:55
When people first heard of it, they're like there's no way I'm going to pay that much money for one piece of chocolate, I know. And now they got. All people are beating down the doors to get this stuff.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 20:14
They are piece of chocolate, I know, and now they got all the people are beating down the doors to get this stuff. They are, they are yummy, yeah, so um, they actually turtle, yeah, so the bond or um mongers. They have a I believe it's a wine bar, it's called the rind. So they've expanded beyond just providing cheese and charcuterie to the community. They've They've elevated it and they have a store where they sell wine, where are they located? This one, I went to their Berkeley location, which it's going to be a little deadly.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 20:35
I was going to say it's going to be deadly for us here because it's literally right around the block, and then they also have a location downtown.
August Gitschlag: 20:46
And I think it's just those two. Sorry for reaching across for me to get a hold of the meat, but it's just so good. I'll be flossing my teeth on the way home, but man, it's so good prosciutto.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 20:59
What did I say?
Matt Fox: 20:59
prosciutto.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 21:01
I don't know or they say speck.
August Gitschlag: 21:04
You know what? It's easy. Or they say speck or you know what.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 21:05
You know what's easy. You know why they call it speck.
August Gitschlag: 21:08
That thin ham shit. Just because hey give me some of that thin ham.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 21:14
Hey Fox, give me some of that thin ham there you go yeah, so prosciutto, but yeah, the American way to say it speck. You can say that without messing that up, right?
Jamie Flanagan: 21:27
Out of the way Speck.
August Gitschlag: 21:29
That bacon tasting shit I live my life through some of your movie quotes I'm not a.
Matt Fox: 21:35
Speck, speck, speck, speck, speck, speck, speck.
Jamie Flanagan: 21:40
It's Peck, but you know.
Matt Fox: 21:41
I know.
Jamie Flanagan: 21:42
This is fun to say. It is fun. It's like we can turn it into a movie. Everything turns into the motor city. Hypnotist is, uh, joining us.
August Gitschlag: 21:49
He's I'm in the house he is on he does not have to convince us this stuff is delicious.
David Wright: 21:54
He will be a you will love what's in front of you so, uh, bon bon bon.
Jamie Flanagan: 21:59
Wow, we've already had our way with it, but there's just an array of different.
David Wright: 22:04
I'm not touching a VR head.
Jamie Flanagan: 22:06
Your way with it, seasoned so yeah, but if there's something that strength.
David Wright: 22:12
I love creme brulee, favorite dessert nice to meet you.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 22:18
I'm Kristen nice to meet you. Another waiver we need to protect him from me, though, yeah.
Matt Fox: 22:27
Right? I don't think so. Set it down on the table, Dave.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 22:30
No, it's okay.
Matt Fox: 22:30
All right.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 22:31
He's got a pretty steady hand for a hypnotist. So this is you will.
David Wright: 22:36
You will not shake, you will not spill that wine.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 22:40
So this is champagne. So this is champagne and, as you know, champagne only coming from France. So this is mainly Pinot Noir, pinot Meunier and some Chardonnay, and the premise behind, you know my wine choices is pairing holiday wines with, you know, when you're having your parties. So, whether that's cheese and charcuterie chocolates, the only thing that we're missing are some oysters, but that's all right, we'll just focus on the meat and cheese.
Matt Fox: 23:09
We'll save that for the next show yeah, we'll save that.
August Gitschlag: 23:11
Yeah, I think that'll be a good New Year's. Those slimy things that come on the shelf, yep.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 23:14
Would you eat that?
August Gitschlag: 23:16
I haven't. No, it's okay, not a fan, nah, I'll eat it.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 23:24
Oh, Jamie brought out some fancy toothpicks yeah, those are big. Oh my gosh, these look like a weapon.
Jamie Flanagan: 23:32
Because, he's Sign that waiver.
Matt Fox: 23:33
quickly fellas, sign that waiver.
Jamie Flanagan: 23:37
Dave, you jumped into the creme brulee. Fantastic From the bonbons Pride of Hamtramck. They are just little works of art.
David Wright: 23:47
They're gorgeous.
Jamie Flanagan: 23:50
And the packaging for each is just so fun.
August Gitschlag: 23:54
And full disclosure. I'm literally texting with the owner right now. I can't.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 23:58
How do I listen, I want to listen. We'll tap into some of those darker chocolates with the red wines that I have. Everything that, all the wines that I brought you know they pair with you. Know everything that we have here and again, like I said, there's really no rules. You know, when it comes to Chardonnay, you know it's tradition, even with turkey, or chicken.
Matt Fox: 24:23
Will you pass me this?
Jamie Flanagan: 24:24
bottle real quick.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 24:24
Oh, yes, of course.
Matt Fox: 24:26
I took my first sip in La Petra.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 24:30
Yeah, La.
Matt Fox: 24:30
Pietra, la Pietra.
August Gitschlag: 24:32
Thank you so it's Petra, like the place in Indiana Jones, petra.
Matt Fox: 24:37
Thank you, indeed, for the clarification.
Jamie Flanagan: 24:41
Wasn't it, the Hunger Games, wasn't that?
August Gitschlag: 24:44
It's that place in Jordan, in the crack down there, it's called Petra, wasn't that Peter? Yeah, there was PETA, there was PETA, and it's some guys that don't like you hunting right the PETA guys, yeah yeah, the fish have feelings too, peta. The more you talk with a foreign accent, the more American douche. I'm going to get.
Matt Fox: 25:05
Oh, you don't need to do that on us, no, I don't, no, no, no, just keep talking. So I tried this. And you said it had an oaky feel to it.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 25:13
I tried, so I tried this and you said I had an oaky feel to it. Yeah, so that has some oak treatment to it. So it's got a little bit of that creaminess and, yeah, you'll get some oak. Why would you get?
Matt Fox: 25:20
I got, I got a sweetness, and I think that's coming from the oak itself, and they have the sugars from the coming from the mouthful of chocolate. Well, yeah, shut up.
August Gitschlag: 25:33
Look at me making sense again.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 25:35
No, you have a very I'm going to compliment you. You have a very refined palate because it's French oak that's used for this Italian Chardonnay. So French oak imparts a little bit more vanilla.
David Wright: 25:45
Isn't that illegal?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 25:46
Versus what.
David Wright: 25:48
Mixing, mixing the ethnicities.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 25:52
Oh, no, no no, I'm just saying, and then you no, no, I'm just saying, and then you know, american oak. So the difference between that American oak is a little bit more spicy. That's why you find it more in bourbons and whiskeys. So, yeah, that one's French oak. So yeah, you get some vanilla on it. But yeah, like August said, maybe it's the chocolate.
August Gitschlag: 26:10
It's awesome. So we didn't. What are like, what level of party am I bringing this to? I mean, am I bringing this to my girlfriend's parents' house or am I bringing this to Jimmy's ugly sweater party? It depends on the price points here.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 26:22
Yeah, no the price, no, the price point on this one. I know it's under, I think it's under 50. So it's not anything that's horrible, but that's a bring it to your, you know, parents, in-laws as far as the Christmas party. Pass. That one, these two, both of these I don't even need a cork opener Look at that. See, that's the point, twist and shout.
Matt Fox: 26:46
It's nice.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 26:48
Yeah. So this is a nice wine, pun intended to bring to an ugly sweater party or, if you want to be naughty, august.
David Wright: 26:59
Why'd you?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 27:00
call me.
David Wright: 27:01
Well, you had the free hand. She met you before August. She knows something.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 27:09
I can just feel the energy. Or if you want to bring something fun, these, these are fun. So these are from chateau chantal up north on old mission peninsula, and my husband and I got to stay with bob um and stay their wines are readily available.
August Gitschlag: 27:27
You can find these yeah yeah.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 27:28
So that's why I brought them. I wanted to, you know, give them a little bit of. You know, get a, give them a little bit of a shout out because we appreciated our time up there. And yeah, for the ugly sweater Christmas, bring both of those.
Matt Fox: 27:39
Is that specific for the holidays? Then it is.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 27:42
Well, so they do a holiday label, but otherwise, yeah, they have those in their case.
August Gitschlag: 27:47
Like I put a little, Santa hat on my label and over my other regular stuff and call it Christmas wine.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 27:51
Yeah, just white wine, simple, easy.
August Gitschlag: 27:56
Generic white is what I give away Generic white wine.
Matt Fox: 28:00
Kind of like me. Generic white wine, but you age like milk oh.
August Gitschlag: 28:07
I don't know, buddy, I'm 50.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 28:09
I look pretty damn good Now I know what I was missing during the first one.
Jamie Flanagan: 28:14
I can see what's going on here once it gets rolling, I just gotta sit back yeah, the dynamic, you kids in your young ages, like picking up, like fighting with my brother at the dinner table, you know I love it.
Jamie Flanagan: 28:29
I think it's great, so we're talking about going to either a sweater party or, you know, to your in-laws. I was looking up at Emily Post and some relatives are like, oh, here's your host gift and it's because we host and my wife is like one of eight and we've had as many as like 42 people. We're on track for about 35 this year, but so people bring over a host gift.
Jamie Flanagan: 28:56
It's a host gift and then. So now we got to take host gift over. Are host gifts expected August? Do you do host gifts? I?
August Gitschlag: 29:04
know I've been to only a couple of parties in my life that have had have had those. They're usually like a bag of coffee. The best one was I went to a party a Christmas Eve party and everyone on the way out got a $25 Target gift card.
Jamie Flanagan: 29:19
That was interesting. No, no, you as the guest bringing a gift for the host.
August Gitschlag: 29:22
Oh, I thought you said a host gift, like they were on the way out.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 29:24
No, everyone brings something on the way in.
August Gitschlag: 29:27
Everyone does that.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 29:28
That's called party favors, adult party favors.
David Wright: 29:30
Some people do not, though. I make a point of bringing a bottle of something if it's somebody's home.
Jamie Flanagan: 29:37
So I mean Christmas we do the main dish and everybody brings the sides and stuff.
August Gitschlag: 29:41
That's not a side that they go with a bottle of wine or a bottle of bourbon. I usually do one of the fancy beers that I have collecting, that you get at a bourbon county or something like that, or one of the really expensive Kunin beers that I get access to, I bring those kinds of things. Yes, I always do.
Jamie Flanagan: 29:58
Okay, yes, so you're, you're an always host.
August Gitschlag: 30:01
At the drag queen sing off last Saturday night in the dilapidated mansion in Detroit, I brought two bottles of wine.
Jamie Flanagan: 30:07
Oh, fair play.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 30:08
All right, all right, I'll show you pictures later.
Jamie Flanagan: 30:15
Can later, can I? I was gonna say I want to know which. It was the thing all right were. There were their feet on it, and we're, uh, no, that's the one barefoot anyway, all right so uh, matt what about you? Are you? Uh? Where are you? Where do you fall with bringing a host gift?
Matt Fox: 30:25
um, it depends on the, the environment and where the party's at, of course, okay. And if it's for in-laws, for family, yeah you, it's not expected, but it's a nice gesture all right you will to bring a host gift. Like Dave, if you invited me over and you had a party, I would bring you a host gift.
David Wright: 30:42
I would hope so. Otherwise you're not getting an invite, see I get that answer before I invite people.
Matt Fox: 30:49
So if you're bringing, something you're invited.
Jamie Flanagan: 30:55
So the etiquette, I believe is the first time you go to somebody's house, you're invited, so the etiquette I, I believe, is the first time you go to somebody's house, you're supposed to bring a gift the first time. Yes, the first time, but then after that where's the price point on? Um, you know, yeah. So emily post I was reading, I was trying to figure it out right is it proper or not? And I've heard both where it's like it's unnecessary and it's not. The host isn't looking for compensation, compensation.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 31:19
Well, can I, can I be selfish here?
Jamie Flanagan: 31:21
Yeah, yeah.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 31:21
Can I be honest?
David Wright: 31:22
Yeah, I'll be honest.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 31:24
So, yes, on one side, you, you should bring a host gift. You know, bring, bring a bottle of wine. But when you're choosing, like Matt said, well, what's the price point? What do I bring? This is where my selfishness comes into play. It's going to be a wine that I enjoy and I like, and you know you're not supposed to have the host open it Right.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 31:48
However, if it opens, however, you know, if you happen to be a sommelier and you're like, hey, have you had this before? And the answer is no, it's always no, because I bring something that's very unique.
Jamie Flanagan: 32:00
I'll be like, can I?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 32:01
open it so we can all taste it together.
Jamie Flanagan: 32:03
Do you want me to tell you a little something? I like your evil ways. You are an evil genius, yeah.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 32:10
Well, now we're not going to get invited anywhere. My husband and I.
David Wright: 32:15
Well, yeah, well, well, now we're not going to get invited anywhere. My husband well, no, no, here, here's. Here's the workaround, I don't know. You just bring the wine and then you go into the other room and say, uncle ricky, go open that bottle and tell me when it's open yeah, sure. And then you can say hey, uncle ricky opened it all right, guys, I brought the best thing here.
August Gitschlag: 32:28
We're opening it now, yeah that yeah, let's go get it.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 32:31
You know that's august approach.
August Gitschlag: 32:32
I like that I brought this because I want to drink.
Jamie Flanagan: 32:34
Yes, just be honest that's it so I yeah, I like, I like, I like taking a host gift. But although now that we're friends, kristin, I'm a little bit afraid that if you ever invited me over, I'm like I cannot take her a bottle of wine because there's no way I can bring something that's good, so I'm gonna have to bring a charcuterie board from mongers. You can just bring. You know what?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 32:56
Just bring a bottle of really nice PD scotch because you know you know what they say Happy wife, happy life. My husband would be happy with that, so as long as he's happy. I'm happy, happy wife, happy life.
Jamie Flanagan: 33:11
I already have.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 33:12
I already have all the wines I don't want to put any pressure on anyone.
Jamie Flanagan: 33:15
Now, if we were coming to party with you, I would be nervous. I can't do a wine, I would have to do bonbons, or a charcuterie board, or maybe oven mitts, I don't know.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 33:26
Oven mitts. Well, like August said, he brings beer. So, like I said, bring something that you like, you enjoy that.
Jamie Flanagan: 33:37
Uh, you know, uh, maybe uncle ricky will open yeah, but emily post said that you you're not expected. You're not expecting the host to open it if they could put it on the show. Emily's wrong and you shouldn't be offended. Emily's wrong, although unless you're crafty, that's crafty. It's like, oh hey, have you tried this? Let me tell you the story. Yeah, and then like holy crap, you got to open that, let's do. Oh hey, have you tried this? Let me tell you the story. And then they're like holy crap, you got to open that.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 33:56
Oh yeah, no problem. Are you sure you don't want to save?
August Gitschlag: 33:58
it Okay, no, no, no I already got the foil off.
Jamie Flanagan: 34:00
I got the opener I already got the foil off and she's pulling the opener out of her pocket. There we go. Yeah, her weapon, yeah.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 34:07
Careful over there. This is buttery Back to this, la Petra.
Jamie Flanagan: 34:10
La Petra. See, I'm not the only one.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 34:21
La Petra means the stone Buttery. I'm getting a creamy but buttery. Yeah, it's like French oak it imparts vanilla on it.
Jamie Flanagan: 34:31
I like that. And now it's empty. And what are we doing next?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 34:35
Oh, so I have scotch and avala means to chase away the devil.
Jamie Flanagan: 34:43
Oh, I am not hooked on phonics.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 34:45
So whoever gets up after drinking this, where did August go?
Matt Fox: 34:49
Did you know I was opening this? You just said chasing away the devil. I was going to say he's like Lenny and Squig devil.
Jamie Flanagan: 34:53
Yeah, I was going to say I just, oh, okay, he's like Lenny and Squiggy. Hello.
August Gitschlag: 34:58
I went to sneeze. We want to do it on air and stuff.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 35:01
Oh, thanks August.
August Gitschlag: 35:02
He's such a gentleman I know All right.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 35:04
Then I have to say God bless you.
August Gitschlag: 35:05
I farted twice, but I won't sneeze here oh please. Oh, the cheese. That was the cheese. I can't have those imparted flavors. I'm not corrupting the essence here, don't worry Essence. I mean other than my general presence, oh man, so we're going to go into the reds.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 35:29
We're going to go into the reds. Now, guys, do you want me to?
Jamie Flanagan: 35:33
get my other glass.
Matt Fox: 35:34
I'm going to'm gonna be honest, I'm gonna get this lemon grenache before I go to the reds I really enjoy red wine more than I do white wine.
David Wright: 35:42
Matt, I was just gonna say the same thing. I I'm. I don't drink white wine. I just don't feel like it's, I feel like it's always. It's like kid juice to me, it's got a little lemon in it oh that's cute.
August Gitschlag: 35:54
Which bonbon is that? It's Lemon Bar, none. There, you go Shortbread crust, lemon custard.
David Wright: 36:04
Zoom it up there. There, it is right there.
August Gitschlag: 36:07
There it is, you've got to give it a second to focus folks. There you go.
Matt Fox: 36:14
That's like hey, camera four, no but I've always been a very hamdramic, I've always been more red wine than white wine, because I like a dry white wine.
Jamie Flanagan: 36:26
I really do. I do. I'd like a nice white wine, but I'm no, I like a nice white wine. I'll grab it if I'm buying, if I'm in the store, I'm picking up, I'm picking up, uh, reds unless it's summertime, and you know, uh, you know, I'll do, I'll do the, I'll do the whites in the summer a little bit more, but reds all year round yeah, so this one.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 36:48
So this one's from umbria, italy, so jacopo is the winemaker and this is 100% Sagrantino. So Italy has thousands of different varietals of of grapes and I we hosted him at a restaurant that I'm at part-time and he had a beautiful wine dinner and he's very he's. He's the classic Italian, very expressive.
August Gitschlag: 37:16
You know Dave's fighting for his space in there. I know, yeah, like a kid in the feed line at the orphanage I know I know, yeah, I teed you all up for that one, yeah yeah, um.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 37:27
So yeah, sagrantino sagrantino so sagrantino can only be grown, uh, in the Monte Falco region of Umbria. So there's a lot of rules and regulations, not just in France with the champagne, like we had kind of talked about and touched on, but also in Italy. So this is one of those grapes where, if you're drinking a Sagrantino, it's coming from Monte Falco, which is in Umbria, which is right in the middle of Italy. If you don't know where Umbria which is right in the middle of Italy.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 37:55
If you don't know where Umbria is, this is really beautiful. This is a little bit lighter than the cab that we're going to dive into. I'm segueing you guys in slowly so I'm not pounding your palate.
David Wright: 38:09
I'd like my palate pounded.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 38:10
I'm just saying yeah, I bet you do. It's Monday, that's why you're a hypnotist, right?
David Wright: 38:15
Right, exactly. That's why you're a hypnotist.
August Gitschlag: 38:17
You will make it to work tomorrow.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 38:19
You will pound my palate, pound my palate, yeah.
Jamie Flanagan: 38:23
Right.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 38:23
All right, so I'm going to go with for the Bon Bon Mon.
Jamie Flanagan: 38:26
Talk about a restraining order, oh crap, that's too funny, hey too soon. Too soon.
David Wright: 38:31
He's still on probation. I just got out of that.
Matt Fox: 38:35
Which waiver am I signing now, guys?
Jamie Flanagan: 38:38
How many?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 38:38
are there.
Jamie Flanagan: 38:40
How many One for each bottle, I think? Oh my gosh.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 38:43
Okay, so I'm going to tap into Cherry Lux, this one's Italian Maraschino, candied Michigan Cherries, dark Chocolate, grenache, oh yeah, oh, my goodness, oh that just hits the top of my mouth.
David Wright: 38:58
So with the wine that you just poured body-wise. How does this fall in the reds?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 39:05
It's a medium.
David Wright: 39:06
It's a medium, yeah, a medium. If I'm going to drink a red, I like something with some, I like it dry and I also like a Chianti or something more.
August Gitschlag: 39:14
Just a little bit of you talked, all kinds of Chianti or something more, just a little bit of Chianti. You talked all kinds of Chianti last time we were here A little bit of.
Matt Fox: 39:18
Pikes.
August Gitschlag: 39:18
We asked about what kind of wine to bring to Thanksgiving dinner. You're like Chianti we went what? No one saw that one coming, but there you go.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 39:27
Yeah, this Cherry Lux with this killer, killer, killer, and then honestly, honestly, out of the charcuterie. Yeah, I, probably you guys are eating all the sopressada.
Matt Fox: 39:39
It matches.
August Gitschlag: 39:43
Wait, I'm going to eat a pickle and there's a pile of meat there.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 39:47
You got to have your veggies, you got to have your veggies August?
August Gitschlag: 39:50
I don't. I had some ranch earlier. It's my favorite vegetable Ranch dressing.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 39:54
Ranch dressing. It's my favorite vegetable.
August Gitschlag: 39:55
Ranch dressing. Ranch dressing is my favorite vegetable. There's some herbs in there.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 39:58
Yeah, there's dill. There you go, there's your herbs.
David Wright: 40:01
What's that Jamie? What's that one, jamie?
Jamie Flanagan: 40:03
All right, that's the bonbon. Oh, it's the coffee and donuts. Oh nice, it's got the sprinkles.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 40:12
Is it dark chocolate?
Jamie Flanagan: 40:13
Yeah, that's going to go good with this. That's what I was pulling out Dark chocolate. Yeah, Coffee ganache with donut accoutrement.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 40:26
I'm aerating in my mouth, got it?
David Wright: 40:30
That's a talent I've never heard of.
Jamie Flanagan: 40:33
Jet plane noises.
August Gitschlag: 40:39
Air raid freshmen, get down.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 40:40
All right, it's a talent I've I've never heard of jet jet plane air raid freshman, get down air rates air rates I know no d how is it, jamie killer? Yeah, do you think it's good with that red or do you think that would be better with, like the Chardonnay, because I think you know coffee donuts like that? One could probably go either way, huh.
Jamie Flanagan: 41:01
It's got a hint of the coffee in it. It does have a hint of the coffee flavor in it.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 41:07
It's so good with the red.
Matt Fox: 41:09
It's nice with the red yeah.
Jamie Flanagan: 41:12
I only bit half of it. I left the other half.
August Gitschlag: 41:15
Anybody else wanted the other half that's all nice, you can, you can finish.
Jamie Flanagan: 41:19
I only, I only licked the bottom of it, sign me.
David Wright: 41:23
Oh, here we go well, just like making out with jamie, it's not a big deal. We've all been there. Different podcast dave different podcast you're crossing the streams again it's fun to cross the streams oh, that's the fun with foam one did you say fun with foam?
August Gitschlag: 41:44
oh, my oh my, there's a foam and friends is the actual name of it I was trying not to throw it on the bus, but you, you went ahead and did it.
Jamie Flanagan: 41:52
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Matt Fox: 41:54
That's just the best. Good night everybody.
August Gitschlag: 41:58
We're just getting warmed up.
Jamie Flanagan: 41:59
You're right, he does spray foam insulation and he talks to other spray foam insulation guys, but they all have.
August Gitschlag: 42:06
How about the childhood?
Jamie Flanagan: 42:06
traumas, but they all have super moving stories. Yeah, traumas and dramas.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 42:11
I can only imagine some of the things that maybe have been spray foamed in there. But then they talk about trucks and spray foam.
Jamie Flanagan: 42:18
It's charming, it's a charming self.
David Wright: 42:19
I have not listened to that, but I might just take a listen, just for entertainment.
Jamie Flanagan: 42:24
Every one of them has a heart-wrenching story too. The host does a good job of finding people that have stories to share, and that's what we like to do here on the man Cave is share stories about like our friends at Bon Bon Bon.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 42:39
Yeah, and Monger's Provision.
Jamie Flanagan: 42:42
See how we work those product placements into it.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 42:45
So downtown, they're in Midtown and then another location in downtown.
August Gitschlag: 42:51
There's like two downtown one in Mid, one in ann arbor. Wow, okay, there's a one in in the eastern market shed. That kind of comes and goes. So now there's also like a bon bon bon food truck there's a truck that goes around.
Jamie Flanagan: 43:03
I've never seen the truck. They origin like a little thing. They originated here in hamtramck they let.
August Gitschlag: 43:08
it originated in hamtramck on evelyn street, in a tiny little spot literally down the alley from whiskey in the Because I was looking at their website and I'm like, oh, is this a franchise?
Jamie Flanagan: 43:16
No, it's all her.
August Gitschlag: 43:17
And then they bought an old place in Hamtramck, fixed it up Like the pictures she just recently shared the pictures of her redoing it, which was years ago. She's like remember when we did this and there was like an old oven with doll heads in it and all kinds of weird shit. It was really weird when they built that place out. She's a culinary artist. Yes, she is a chocolatier, studied overseas. She's from Clark Canton. Does she know Willie? I don't know. She's not here. I'd ask her.
David Wright: 43:43
She's a chocolatier.
Jamie Flanagan: 43:45
Willie Wonka, I get it, willie Wonka joke.
David Wright: 43:47
I know it was lame.
Matt Fox: 43:50
I need another wine to make the jokes catch up.
August Gitschlag: 43:54
Bless you. Sorry that one snuck up on me. I was going to say August you didn't leave.
Jamie Flanagan: 43:59
Bonbons are nutty good.
Matt Fox: 44:02
Yeah, those are killer. I'm going to reach over and grab one more. Jamie, Let me bring you the box.
Jamie Flanagan: 44:13
Yes, bring me the box please.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 44:13
What's in the box.
Jamie Flanagan: 44:14
Get up close and read we're having our way with these bonbons, that's for sure.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 44:17
I stole the bourbon one.
Jamie Flanagan: 44:18
I got it set aside here.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 44:19
I know I was going to grab that for you, jamie, specifically because it just has your name all over it.
Jamie Flanagan: 44:25
But I would eat half of it. I would even cut it with a knife before I bit into it, if someone wanted to.
Matt Fox: 44:31
I think I'm going to try the swimming turtle yeah, that one will be good with that?
Jamie Flanagan: 44:35
What's in it? What's it?
Matt Fox: 44:36
say it has caramel, milk chocolate, toasted pecan and flaky salt.
Jamie Flanagan: 44:42
I knew there'd be a nut. There's a nut in there somewhere.
Matt Fox: 44:44
You are what you eat.
David Wright: 44:46
We don't have our rinse bucket, do we?
August Gitschlag: 44:48
Crunchy sea salt ones. Yeah, you're right.
Jamie Flanagan: 44:54
We don't have a spittoon. You can grab one of the Firebird Tavern pint glasses Our glassware sponsor. Just so, right outside the door, on the shelf there, our glassware sponsor At the bottom of foot level and Firebird Tavern Supplies us with a bunch of glasses, and then our rocks glasses and the pint glasses we have.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 45:12
Well, I'm going to have to reach out to Max Riedel himself and get some sponsored glassware for us?
Matt Fox: 45:21
Oh, absolutely this has been an absolute treat, kristen, thank you.
David Wright: 45:27
Yeah, you're so welcome.
Matt Fox: 45:29
It's like you're not done yet.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 45:31
Oh, no, no no, we are not.
David Wright: 45:33
We're not done yet. We are but wait.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 45:35
We are not. Yeah, we have lots of stories, Like I said, with the Scotch of the Avila, Jacopo the winemaker. I hosted him this year for a wine dinner.
August Gitschlag: 45:46
Say that again.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 45:49
Jacopo.
August Gitschlag: 45:50
Scotch of the Avila.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 45:51
Scotch of the Avila Okay, so Scotch of the Avala. Scotch of the avala okay, so scotch of the avala means chase away the devil oh, all right bye. Yeah, that's the name you gotta sneeze again, sneeze again.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 46:03
All of a sudden, yes, that's the name of the, the winery, and uh, yacopo is the winemaker. So really cool guy. I you know that was the second time that I had met him when he was stateside and that's why I wanted to bring his wines and talk about it. And then this next one. Yeah, so this next one is going to be a big boy. So I brought another big boy cab for the man Cave Happy Hour. This is a manly cab.
August Gitschlag: 46:36
So last time that I was on, we drank some of the. There you go.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 46:39
Do the Tim Allen.
David Wright: 46:40
Yeah, you got it More power.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 46:43
So this one is Sandia Winery out of Napa. So Sandia family, they gifted me a really awesome engraved sabrage sword. They gave you a sword Aved Sabrage sword, you know.
Jamie Flanagan: 46:55
They gave you a sword. A sword, yes. The machete.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 46:58
Yeah, no, it's not a machete.
August Gitschlag: 46:59
Machete. It's never cut in brush it's for.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 47:02
No, so the Sanditas Cutting open wine bottles or something, yeah, so well, not cutting them open, but popping the cork off. So we'll do that at some point in time in the future One of our outdoor shows?
August Gitschlag: 47:12
Yeah, one of our outdoor.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 47:13
yeah, yeah, one of the outdoor shows and to ensure that there's nobody that gets harmed.
August Gitschlag: 47:19
Another set of waivers.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 47:21
Yeah, that'll probably be its own separate yeah, its own separate thing. But yeah, this one that we're going to sample and I haven't had this in about a year it's a 2018 Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon. So Howell Mountain is in the Vaca Mountain Range in Napa and it's about 14 or 1600 elevation, which is important. It's 1400 because of the way that you know the grapes grow, the temperatures and their exposure to sunlight. So, oh, did you have that dump?
David Wright: 48:00
Yes, Right here, here it is.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 48:03
I mean, I don't want to dump it, but I had that dump before I came.
David Wright: 48:08
So yeah.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 48:13
So this one very beautiful. The family is fantastic. Like I said, they gifted me a really beautiful Sabrage sword for opening a wine bar last year. And hang on, Let me taste it first. I know you're anxious.
August Gitschlag: 48:28
I'm still reading this bonbon I'm holding Like what, the what, what?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 48:31
is it? Look how dark this is.
David Wright: 48:34
That's what I like.
Jamie Flanagan: 48:35
The last one was a little rosy. The last one was because it wasn't a deep four, because we were trying a few things. We're trying to behave ourselves. This one looks so much darker.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 48:44
Yeah, I'm going to get up and do my sommelier service for you.
Jamie Flanagan: 48:48
Oh nice, which one did you grab? She's bringing it around.
August Gitschlag: 48:52
Is that the raspberry one Raspberry cardamom?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 48:57
Okay, before you bite that, I'm going to wait. I was going to say Rougelache, ganache, pearl sugar.
August Gitschlag: 49:02
Before they're gone, I want to claim one.
David Wright: 49:05
No no, I had one for the champagne. I'm not going to rinse that one. We're good with that one. Thank you, look at that. Look at that. Oh boy, what do I pick?
August Gitschlag: 49:17
I don't think there's much choice right now.
Jamie Flanagan: 49:20
I thought there'd be bonbons to go, but we're doing some damage on the bonbons.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 49:28
I know I thought I was going to. The Hulk is going to be angry if you don't leave him some oh Alright.
Jamie Flanagan: 49:34
We met the Hulk. We do not want to anger the Hulk. The Hulk is going to be angry if you don't leave him some. All right, we met the Hulk.
August Gitschlag: 49:39
We do not want to anger the Hulk, did the Lions call him. I know they were looking for some help on the defensive line, some linebackers. Well, he used to play football, but he was in high school.
Matt Fox: 49:50
He's a lot taller than me.
August Gitschlag: 49:51
That's why I make a football joke. All right.
Matt Fox: 49:55
So what should we look for when we sip on this?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 49:59
So for this one it's going to be. I mean visually, you can see it's a lot right away.
David Wright: 50:06
I already like it. I haven't even tasted it yet.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 50:10
I'm trying to focus?
August Gitschlag: 50:11
Oh, because I was putting the chocolate up there.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 50:13
I mean that's fine.
August Gitschlag: 50:13
You know it kind of we're fuzzy.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 50:14
Oh, because I was putting the chocolate up there. It should readjust to us, right I?
David Wright: 50:18
mean that's fine. It kind of smooths out. Put your hand and pull it away slowly. There it is.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 50:21
Nope, almost I was going to say it smooths out the wrinkles.
Jamie Flanagan: 50:27
Jamie, we keep finger banging my camera. Yeah, I don't know, it's that Audrey Hepburn, soft focus.
August Gitschlag: 50:34
There it is.
David Wright: 50:35
There it is. It's coming to go. There it is. You're welcome. You're welcome Great.
August Gitschlag: 50:38
Now I look normal again. Thanks a lot, you're welcome.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 50:41
I know. I know your birthday is coming up. Mine's going to be in March. I know Botox is expensive, so maybe we need maybe we need some of those.
August Gitschlag: 50:48
I'm just going to pickle myself naturally here with all the time.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 50:51
Yeah, we're preserving ourselves.
August Gitschlag: 50:54
That's what we're doing, like a fine.
Matt Fox: 50:59
Twinkie Never ages. Never heard the expression like a fine Twinkie in my life.
August Gitschlag: 51:04
Twinkies don't age, they don't.
Matt Fox: 51:07
I've never heard that expression.
August Gitschlag: 51:08
Yeah like one outside of, like the University of Wisconsin for five years, and it never just decomposed or nothing.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 51:14
Yeah, it just stays, it just stays. They're like honey welcome to 50. Get to know ibuprofen. Yeah. So getting back to Matt and what you get on this, obviously the color, the smell, it's going to be a lot more rich and robust. You're going to get a lot more oak. Deep berry flavors're going to get a lot more oak. You know deep berry flavors that's something.
Matt Fox: 51:38
That's what we call jammy, yeah, something that we do talk about are the legs and just looking at these, what's being left on the glass, the oils and such?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 51:51
yeah, that's just going to stick around yeah, so, the so, the more legs that a wine has, like when you spin it around and then you look at it in the light, you'll see. You know, literally these legs coming down. And my, my wine mentor I'm going to bring up his name again, even though you guys don't believe that he exists is Ignacio Tatuli. So he was a cruise line captain for 30 plus years and he was my wine mentor.
Matt Fox: 52:17
Thank you, Ignacio.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 52:18
Yeah, thank you, ignacio. Captain Ignacio, so when you do that and you see all these legs coming down, usually the more legs you see, the higher the alcohol percentage Okay, so, this one is at 13.9.
Matt Fox: 52:32
And that's high for.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 52:34
It's not. I mean that's high for it's not. I mean that's pretty average for a Napa Valley Cabernet. Okay, yeah, it's average. Versus what is this second in Tino? Oh, you wouldn't have guessed this. I wouldn't have guessed this. What do you think the alcohol, the ABV on this lighter red, was 18.5. Oh Jesus, 14. Man, I think that is illegal, like literally.
August Gitschlag: 52:59
You signed the waiver? I think it's illegal.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 53:02
No, this one's at 15. 15? Yeah, and this one's. Obviously it's a little bit lighter in body versus the Sandia. So thank you to the Sandia, so thank you To the Sandia family For this beautiful, this beautiful 2018. I believe this got.
Jamie Flanagan: 53:20
So we got to tag the heck out of them, yeah.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 53:23
I think this one got 94 points.
Jamie Flanagan: 53:26
With.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 53:26
Wine Enthusiast, which I don't really get into. Ratings and points. However, If you're at the store and there's nobody to talk to and you don't know what to buy, you know, uh uh, ratings and points. However, you know, if you're at the store and there's nobody to talk to and you and you don't know what to buy, but you at least see those little shelf talkers it's effective and it helps for retail.
August Gitschlag: 53:45
It works.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 53:46
Yeah, or you know, you know, I mean that's a little old school, you know me, you know me, I'm old school. I like to read an actual physical paper book. Or if you're the new generation, you just scan it with your phone and you've got your wine your wine apps. And then you get to read what everybody else thinks about it. But then you have to remember are they experts or are they just they're usually dummies.
August Gitschlag: 54:06
Or are they just on the streets?
Jamie Flanagan: 54:08
Trying to pay for college or just soccer moms Armchair Drinking their way through another Taylor Swift era's recording.
David Wright: 54:16
Armchair sommeliers the fact that they keep it in a paper bag when they drink it. That's your clue.
August Gitschlag: 54:19
That school line ain't going to. You know it's time. You're never going to get back Waiting in line to pick up those kids, got anything?
Jamie Flanagan: 54:26
else Mercy.
Matt Fox: 54:31
Don't let us stop you.
Jamie Flanagan: 54:34
So, the brie that's so good I just had some of the the breeze how was it yeah? Uh, it's nice, it's very, it's very, it's, it's, it's is it funky? No, it's hitting the room temperature, and so it's just.
Jamie Flanagan: 54:46
It's just and you try it enough, and you tried it with this one, uh yeah, it's it's, it's, uh, it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it what do you think you're doing? You've done it both I'm happy with the red I'm enjoying it.
Jamie Flanagan: 55:07
I'm enjoying it with the red, but you know, from that one's I mean a barbarian so that one, so that one's not as uh, funky as a regular brie it's mild yeah that's very, very mild so you could go.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 55:20
I mean you could go sparkling white or red with that because it's not super funky right. I honestly I I wish that we had some um, you know, some gorgonzola or blue cheese you know, super stinky and super salty, because that would go great with one of the last wines that I have I showered?
August Gitschlag: 55:38
I saw you look at me. I did shower. No, you smell good.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 55:43
Yeah, you don't smell salty, so we're not gonna lick your armpits different podcast kristen come on so that's for the film show.
Jamie Flanagan: 55:51
Interestingly enough, that is not the first time august has been snipped. I I saw you posted a picture with biden just a couple weeks ago oh well, but I didn't slip his hat, I his head.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 56:05
I think that's.
August Gitschlag: 56:06
Oh my gosh the funny thing is it's a real picture.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 56:11
It is Sniffing you Because I would really like.
David Wright: 56:18
Do you guys have a printer?
Matt Fox: 56:19
Can we print that off. I want you to sign it. That's his new white label actually. Oh, that would be great.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 56:25
What are you going to sign it? I want you to sign it. That's his new white label actually. Oh, that would be great.
Matt Fox: 56:29
What are you going to call it? Can you use?
Jamie Flanagan: 56:33
aroma. Sniff this.
Matt Fox: 56:39
How do you spell? That's C, that's a challenge.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 56:43
Just put a name to it like Sniffin' Joe. Oh, my gosh All right. So this last one, like I was saying, oh, that's a challenge.
David Wright: 56:50
Let's put a name to it like sniffing joe. Oh my gosh, all right, so so this last one, like I was saying, oh, that's, that's the last is this is this? Well, there's, I have, I bring a bunch of wines, but listen.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 56:55
So, uh, so, ice wine that is. It goes hand in hand with quote michigan wines. But it's not just limited to michigan. There's the finger lakes region in new york you have all right.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 57:10
So cuca, canada, the finger lakes region, oh, beautiful wine so much fun down there yeah, I haven't been there yet because I spent a lot of time up on the 45th and leland and mission okay um, but ice wine. So I brought for us. We're very blessed to be able to have this 2021 ice wine from Chateau Chantel. This, believe it or not, even though it's golden in color, this is 100% Riesling.
Jamie Flanagan: 57:40
Ooh, okay.
David Wright: 57:44
Third time you've hit me today. You got smacked.
August Gitschlag: 57:45
Third time you've hit me today.
Matt Fox: 57:45
You got smacked.
August Gitschlag: 57:46
Third time you've hit me today and she doesn't even know my middle name.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 57:52
It's called flirting. I'm sure I'll be dead soon.
August Gitschlag: 57:59
I might as well be a healthcare CEO now On the hit list Too soon Too soon, too soon.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 58:07
Too soon. So ice wine guys. Ice wine is very, very unique, very, very unique, and it's only when Mother Nature allows wineries to have the good grace. So how does?
Jamie Flanagan: 58:21
Mother Nature tell us, you ran through this earlier, for me. I was fascinated by the process and what makes something an ice wine.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 58:29
Yes, so ice wines. Like I said, this is 100% Riesling. And the golden color? You wouldn't think that, because whenever you drink a Riesling, that is not of an ice wine. It's very clear, it's very pure. It's very clear, it's very pure. So ice wine has a lot more residual sugar because all of the sugars have been concentrated in that grape, because they're frozen on the vine. Normally they pick their Riesling in September.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 59:02
October up north, but they don't pick the ice wine grapes that are made for this. They'll leave some Riesling on the vines through January. You have at least November and December, part of October and then part of January. You pray to God that these stay frozen.
Jamie Flanagan: 59:29
Last winter was very mild Help me, Oprah but this year, so we've had Help me Tom Cruise, help me Jewish God.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 59:41
Stop driving me wrong. Stop driving me wrong.
August Gitschlag: 59:45
But this is a whole different flavor than anything else yeah it is this is almost like you're having one of those chocolates yeah, so ice wines are typically a sweeter feel for.
Matt Fox: 59:55
Oh, yeah, yeah so they even have a dessert wow viscosity yes, it is
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:00:01
yeah, so there's a little bit more viscous feel to it. Absolutely, and yeah, like I said, not every year. You get this because you are just praying that the grapes that you leave on the vine stay frozen and that you're able to harvest them when they need to be harvested, because they still have to be frozen when you harvest and then press them, because what that does is it just concentrates all those sugars in that grape and keeps them frozen. It's nature's refrigeration and, yeah, this is the result. So this I know. If you wanted to buy this online at Chateau Chantel, it's $90.
August Gitschlag: 1:00:41
And that's like 12 ounces and they're always smaller bottles like that Always.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:00:45
Yeah, I think this is 375.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:00:49
Yeah, 375 ml.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:00:52
So yeah, thank you Bob and Marie for sending that, and you know there's a lot of wineries that if they have the capacity to make ice wine, they will, because it's such a rare treat for a winemaker to make that and to to share it with.
August Gitschlag: 1:01:07
So now we're. It is a neat gift too, cause no one, no one, just buys this off the shelf, right.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:01:12
It's cause it's very expensive. Like I just said, this is 90 bucks for a three.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:01:16
For a three 75. Yeah.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:01:18
But that's a very, that's a reasonable and a price for an ice wine.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:01:22
I mean price for an ice wine. I mean, I, I haven't I've. Yeah, you know, your boxes don't cost that much, so but uh, that that is that?
Matt Fox: 1:01:31
yeah, that's, that is a treat. That's what that there it is. You like that? Yeah, I bet you would be slippery.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:01:37
We're aerating you were air, not air rating. I'm not flying over you.
August Gitschlag: 1:01:42
Fry like bacon you piggies.
Matt Fox: 1:01:46
I said it like that on purpose I love it.
August Gitschlag: 1:01:50
I actually met Joey Lauren Adams and she wrote that on a picture of my sister Now fry like bacon piggies and it's a picture from Dazed and Confused when she yelled that air raid bitches.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:02:00
Oh, I love it. I love it. My husband and I just watched that movie.
August Gitschlag: 1:02:05
It's my sister's all-time favorite movie.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:02:07
Well, that's a cult classic. Find her things from that movie All right, all right, all right.
August Gitschlag: 1:02:11
First ever movie, first ever scene ever in a movie.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:02:13
When I went to go pick up this cheese and charcuterie board. In Berkeley they have a bacon street.
August Gitschlag: 1:02:24
Maybe you could gank one of those signs and give it to your sister. There you go. I already have a Beaverland sign I took from East.
Matt Fox: 1:02:28
West Side of Detroit. Can I have a little bit more of that?
August Gitschlag: 1:02:33
ice wine oh my gosh.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:02:34
Yes, Mr Red Wine Drinker, I've converted you.
August Gitschlag: 1:02:39
This is a different animal, though.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:02:40
Yeah, this is very different, because even when I pour it, you can see it's got the viscosity, almost, of a red wine.
August Gitschlag: 1:02:49
I've only seen them here.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:02:50
Everyone I've ever seen has always been a michigan one, or, like I said, finger lakes, or canada, you know, uh, uh, peely, peely island and are they almost always german grapes because of the sweetness of german?
August Gitschlag: 1:03:00
yeah, so that they grow in the season yeah, so the elsaicin varieties.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:03:04
Uh, so you know, your riesling gewurztraminer. Uh, you know, when it comes to ice wines I don't.
August Gitschlag: 1:03:10
I'm not just a smart ass, guys.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:03:12
I know stuff he does he, he makes you know, one thing now he drinks and he knows things yes, I'm sitting next to terry and lannister.
August Gitschlag: 1:03:22
Thanks, this is the real picture, by the way, thanks, pizza I like I like that I drove in his motorcade did you? Yes, oh my gosh I used to be somebody celebrities here did. He was just how I got this cabinet.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:03:34
That was oh man, oh man but all right.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:03:38
So we talked about this last time, about michigan in our wine country. Yes, up in the traverse mission. Mission Peninsula and the other peninsula being at the 45th parallel.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:03:48
Yes.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:03:48
And that is parallel to wine country in France and Italy.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:03:53
In France and Italy.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:03:57
Do they do ice wines there, or is that like a stupid American thing?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:04:03
No, it's not.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:04:05
It's not a stupid.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:04:05
American thing.
August Gitschlag: 1:04:06
Why'd you wake me up?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:04:09
So as far as the ice wine potentiality for France and Italy, they don't have lake effect.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:04:17
Okay, we have lake effect, we got lake effect. You get lake effect up there in Traverse like in a big way.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:04:23
Yeah. So I think I mean don't quote me Like I said. I don't quote me like I said. I don't know everything, I don't want to know everything fair play because I know everything well I haven't.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:04:33
I haven't heard of it. Now are there ice wines out of california? I know it all. No well, way up north in california, no northern, northern I you know what.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:04:41
Correct me if I northern.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:04:42
If anybody wants to send us some, you know northern. Tell us this shit, that Northern.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:04:52
Seattle ice wine Share GPT. Do it, do it.
August Gitschlag: 1:04:55
Northern California ice wine.
David Wright: 1:05:00
You can talk into your phone, August. I just talked into it. That's what I was doing.
August Gitschlag: 1:05:03
Oh, did you? Yeah, there's a few, but I don't know how they're doing it. The other front of the ice wine, this one thing I know.
Matt Fox: 1:05:10
See, I had said it had been a really hot second since I'd done ice wine. I didn't remember it the first time.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:05:15
This is memorable what we're drinking right now.
Matt Fox: 1:05:18
This is very memorable because that's going to stick around with me for a while yeah, no, the yeah like they.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:05:22
So Chateau Chantel they've been. I mean, bob is in his 90s and then his daughter, Marie Chantel. She is, you know, she. She runs the vineyard and the winery and you know this is something that they've been producing for for many, many years. It's not just the ice wine, it's the, it's the naughty red, it's the nice white. What's so funny?
Jamie Flanagan: 1:05:46
so you went there, yes, and you had. You said you got to share a room with bob well, I didn't share a room with him.
August Gitschlag: 1:05:53
We stayed in his apartment. My husband and I stayed in his apartment. They're upside down pineapple sheets.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:05:59
I know I was like I'm like it sounds a little freaky um, is he?
David Wright: 1:06:04
uh, bob, where are your pants?
Jamie Flanagan: 1:06:06
Oh he's old, Don't worry, he won't say a word.
August Gitschlag: 1:06:08
Where do you think all this free wine came from? He won't say a word.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:06:12
He'll just be All right. But the visiting this vineyard. What was that experience like? Are there tours and all the things that go along with most of them?
David Wright: 1:06:23
Yes.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:06:25
Because you said you stayed there in his apartment. Are there other places? Because I know Blackstar has a whole B&B up there, which is cool. Do they have the same sort of thing, or do you have to stay in Bob's apartment?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:06:38
No, they were invite only. They were invite only, but no, they do. They have a bed and breakfast.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:06:46
I think it was every Friday and Saturday they had. They had live jazz. They have, you know, I mean, they're, they're beautiful, where they're at is stunning because they're on Mission Peninsula, which is a little bit smaller than Leland Peninsula. So Leland has over two dozen wineries, whereas Mission has, you know, quite a few less. So it's just, it's secluded, it's a little bit more quiet, Anything and everything that you could want or need.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:07:14
You know everybody who works there. They're so hospitable and they have longevity. You know they've been there for a very long time. So family is great, the wines are great. Their winemaker, you know, is fantastic. He's. He does a really great job with you know, all of the different varietals that they're creating, Cause they have, I mean, they make a lot of wine, they make a lot. Their portfolio is huge. So I was really excited when we got this ice wine in the mail from Marie and and we're able to taste it because, like Matt had said, it's a rare treat. You don't see this a lot and when you do, you know it's pricey, but it's worth it because it's something special to talk about, you know, even if you're not a sommelier, you know, just bringing it to the holiday gatherings or to your family and saying, hey, these are made from frozen grapes. What do you think about that? Right?
August Gitschlag: 1:08:09
What's the alcohol content?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:08:11
Go ahead, let me see, let me see what the ABV is on this.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:08:16
It's got a frosty smell to it it's 8.14.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:08:19
Okay, so it's light.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:08:20
It's got a frosty smell to it, though to me it's a sugary frosty smell to it, though to me it's like sugar, sugary frosty smell.
Matt Fox: 1:08:31
I think that's not a bad odorant, not a bad jamie. The nose does not represent the uh, the taste at all you smell one yeah, you smell one thing, but then you taste something completely different.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:08:42
It almost smells like leaves to me. You know like like that tannic like that tannic lake water that you know it's like the tea soaked. Yes, that tea soaked Michigan Lake, right, yeah. But then you taste it and it's it's sweet, but it's not overly sweet, because it's not. It doesn't have, you know, the added beet sugar to it. It's that residual sugar from those frozen grapes.
Matt Fox: 1:09:08
And the beet sugar does come from Michigan as well.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:09:11
Yeah, there's certain wineries that add that, but I didn't bring any of those, that's okay.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:09:17
That's good.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:09:18
All right, you're good.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:09:19
So thank you to your vineyard friends. What?
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:09:21
was their name again Chateau Chantel.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:09:23
Chateau, Chantel and of course, Monger's Provisions for this amazing and it's cool because the charcuterie came with little signs to let you know what each of the ingredients were. And then the de bon, de bon, de bon.
David Wright: 1:09:45
There it is.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:09:47
So um, where is this on here? Mongers provisions? I'm not seeing the website on the little card here.
Matt Fox: 1:09:54
Um mongers provisionscom.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:09:57
Yeah, I just, I just, I just, yeah, I just Googled that and they came up, or I was looking at it earlier today Um yeah, here's their QR code for the bond bond bond.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:10:05
Oh, at it earlier today.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:10:07
Here's their QR code for the Bon Bon Bon. Oh, there you go, and then so yeah, thank you so much to Mongers Provisions and Bon Bon Bon for bringing those in Kristen. Thank you for much being the middleman.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:10:16
Did an hour already pass?
Jamie Flanagan: 1:10:18
What happened.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:10:19
Wait a minute, David. Did you just hypnotize us? I did, I think you did.
Matt Fox: 1:10:25
You guys have been here for eight hours. You don't even know it. Yes, it is mongersprovisionscom.
David Wright: 1:10:30
Perfect, all right.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:10:33
All right, and then Bon Bon Bon is.
August Gitschlag: 1:10:36
Guys, what do we have coming up in the future?
Matt Fox: 1:10:38
There's a few things in the docket, A couple things oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we're going to be doing.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:10:42
we got the Four Branches Bourbon. We're going to talk to the fellas from Four Branches Bourbon and we're going to do some Lion Blue Cocktails.
David Wright: 1:10:54
We did that last year. That was fantastic I have a couple new cocktails.
August Gitschlag: 1:10:57
I'm supposed to get the January date for our visit to Whiskey Taco Foxtrot's Bourbon Club. Sweet, we've got a January date for that Sunday.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:11:05
I met some of those guys.
August Gitschlag: 1:11:08
It's a fun group.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:11:09
And we have some fun stuff coming up at the Detroit Shipping Company with some tastings, and so you'll be able to join us down at the Shipping Company In person.
August Gitschlag: 1:11:19
Get in on this In person, get made fun of by me in person.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:11:23
Live. It's going to be on Tuesdays.
Matt Fox: 1:11:24
You just direct.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:11:25
That at me Starting in January, so that'll be fun too. Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff coming up, so, if you like, subscribe and leave comments. You'll be connected to all those things happening.
August Gitschlag: 1:11:36
I wish you hang out in the cave yeah.
Matt Fox: 1:11:39
Yeah, everyone's welcome.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:11:41
Everyone, even, yeah, even August, sorry yeah.
Matt Fox: 1:11:45
Even August, Sorry man.
David Wright: 1:11:50
It's pretty weak. I got a laugh out of it, though, even me.
August Gitschlag: 1:11:55
Even you, as long as everybody signs the waiver.
David Wright: 1:12:01
Yeah, we've already waved our whole lives away, anyway.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:12:03
Absolutely. This is Jamie Flanagan. Ah, that's Kristen Carlson.
August Gitschlag: 1:12:10
Say that to Matt Fox.
Kristen Carlson - Mrs. Vino: 1:12:11
Matt Fox is over there.
August Gitschlag: 1:12:14
That's Dave, the hypnotist over there.
David Wright: 1:12:16
This is David Wright and that's August Gitson.
August Gitschlag: 1:12:19
Look at that we did it guys.
Jamie Flanagan: 1:12:22
Ladies, gentlemen, cheers, Cheers everyone.
