Wine Situation Final Five (Now With Drunk Dialing!)

The Wine Situation hosts everyone from winemakers to writers to find out what a person’s situation is…with wine. It’s the solo season, as host Ellen Clifford is in quarantine, but listen in with a glass, and nobody is drinking alone! In lieu of guests, at the end of every action packed episode Ellen is phoning a friend with her Final Five questions. This week Ellen talks to Katherine Jarvis, the wonderful woman behind Jarvis Communications. Check out the full episode here THE FINAL FIVE (Ever so slightly edited for length!): QUESTION ONE Ellen: Question number one: whatcha drinking these days? Katherine: I have been drinking a lot of a little bit older wines that I got at some of these wine auctions that were put on this summer to support sommeliers during COVID. I was lucky enough to lowball a couple of things to be honest, and get some Cornas from Jean-Luc Columbo and I was able to get some Barbarescos from a producer called Casina Luisin through the Del Posto auction—producers I’m not really familiar with, but I trust the original buyers. QUESTION TWO Ellen: Question number two is what is either a favorite or one of the more interesting pairings you’ve enjoyed? Katherine: Recently I’ve been enjoying a lot of Valpolicella , like a classic style— Ellen: I do believe I had that at dinner with you! Katherine: You did, that’s right! I had it with oysters, so it’s a chilled red wine that is the perfect pairing with oysters. That’s not a normal pairing for me so that was a discovery. And then…I drink a ton of bubbles. I love that bubbles can go with pretty much any food. QUESTION THREE Ellen: Question number three is—in my sleuthing about you and your life I found out that you spent some time in Chicago and also that you spent time in Italy—so I’m figuring if you don’t have strong feelings about who makes good pizza, you at least have strong feelings about where to get Italian food in LA. So if you have places for either of those things that are favorite places, I’d be curious to hear them. Katherine: I really do love Felix—I know that’s not super traditional but I love the texture of the pasta; I think he’s got a really unique handle on that. I’ve always loved Mozza. You know, where I shop there is this amazing Italian import store on Olympic and 10th in Santa Monica called Guidi Marcello’s. It’s this tiny little spot that nobody knows about, but they sell wonderful pastas from Italy. I shop at Eataly all the time as well. QUESTION FOUR Ellen: Question number four is—I noticed that your handle on a lot of social media is @soavegirl so I was curious how that came to be? Katherine: You really didn’t know, when you were creating the names for these apps, that they would stick, right? Back in the day when they were starting—that you would have to live with these names forever…so I just thought Soave was funny. My husband—that’s actually his house wine. He just loves a simple Soave Classico, which is great, because it’s pretty inexpensive. And so, I just thought it was funny, Soavegirl…had I known what I know now I would have probably put my name in it or something. QUESTION FIVE Ellen: The last of the five questions is just what we’ve been asking people since the beginning of the show—just, what’s bringing you joy these days? Katherine: Going for walks in my neighborhood is really great. LA can be one of those cities where you live next to people for many years and don’t ever really meet them, and we have a great neighborhood—it’s diverse, there’s lots of people from different backgrounds and ages, and we’ve really gotten to know a lot of those people through COVID. Everyone seems to have a dog now, there’s so many puppies! Sometimes we’ll even eat in front of our house to kind of be social and wave at people as they go by. That’s what brings me the most joy, is having gotten to get to know so many of my neighbors, and I hope that continues. *** Check out all that @soavegirl action on all your social medias, also look for @jarviscomm and jarviscommunications.com to see what the Jarvis has to offer! Cheers! Check out the previous Wine Situation podcast with Cha McCoy here .