Pairs With Life

Are you the cool parent who lets your underage kids drink with their friends? Or are "cool parents" just idiots with children? Parenting is hard. So, we're here to make it just a liiiiiiitle bit harder for you. However, we did bring some tasty Atrevida unoaked chardonnay.

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Ian Devereux White, vintner of Charismatic Fool Sparkling Rosé, joins us on the podcast. Ian is also a wine writer, musician and co-founder of Smith-Devereux Wines. We recorded live at JaM Cellars in Napa to discuss...well, writing, wine and music. And creating charity wines for rock stars. And threesomes.

Our closing music for this episode is from Ian's band, High Noon. You can learn more about the band and download their music from their Facebook Page.

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Single-parenting gets an unknown twist when JT finds the new boyfriend moving in with his ex. But just how unknown is it when you've been divorced twice? Some parenting decisions require more than one bottle. So we bought two of the delicious 2015 Jeff Cohn Cellars Sweetwater Spring Petite Sirah.

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The pros and cons of whoring around after 20 years of monogamy. Christine Woman-splains Bumble to JT. Christopher Walken makes a guest appearance...sort of.

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We sip amazing Passaggio Tempranillo Rose and talk with Amybess Cook. Amybess is the founder of Women Owned Wineries of Sonoma and Imbibe Magazine's 2019 Wine Person of The Year. In our interview, we discuss her personal journey and observations on gender inequality in the wine business. Mad props to Passaggio Wines for hosting the podcast at their Sonoma tasting room!

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Wine Oh.tv's creator and host, Monique Soltani, joins us on the podcast. She discusses Dico Cabernet & the disaster inspired life choices that lead her to wine journalism. Then, the quest for the perfect opening theme takes a death metal twist.

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It's the debut episode of the Pairs With Life Podcast! Time to bust open the champagne, smash a few tacos and work through that first date awkwardness.

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Field House Cabernet Sauvignon is luscious, and so is monogamy. Or is it? You've tried marriage, or perhaps a long-term relationship, and it didn't work out. So, is monogamy dead? Is monogamy a natural instinct or just a social construct? And why the hell are we so sober that we can actually use the term "social construct?"

For this episode, we break open a box of wine from Scout and Cellar, specialists in curated selections of clean wine (also called "natural wine" or "wine without fuckery"). A delicious 2017 Field House Mendocino Cabernet Sauvignon is our accompaniment to a discussion on the virtues of monogamy - or lack thereof - and whether the whole idea should be relegated to the scrap pile of history.

Clean wine, clean mind? Not in the least.

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Drinking a smooth glass of Napa Cabernet is easy - talking to kids about sex is not. Talking to your 16-year-old about having sex in the house is especially weird. But we know this: it's a lot easier after that second glass. Or bottle. Opinions run the spectrum from "I'm locking my kid in the closet until she's 30" to "I trust my child and she can get all kinds of nasty in her own home." Do we have the answers? Of course, we do. All of them. That's why you listen.* Join us in the conversation about talking to your kids about sex here and on our Facebook page!

*We don't have any answers and you totally shouldn't listen to us.

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