Santa Barbara in a Glass

Gabe Saglie has been covering the Santa Barbara wine scene for more than 15 years through columns, TV and radio. He’s a senior editor with Travelzoo and is a leading expert on travel deals, tips and trends. Gabe and wife Renee have 3 children and one Golden Retriever named Milo

Wine Collective is donating 50% of the proceeds from their new shatterproof tumblers to a fund for COVID-affected restaurant workers. The four pack sells for $40 and features a golden California backdrop with a heart in red, pink, teal, or silver.

nary is you can’t tell – until you pick it up – that it’s not glass,” says Boggs. “Our tumblers also hold their shape, just like glass, unlike the give of some of those cheaper plastic glasses. And the rim is really smooth.”

Making it especially well-suited for sipping poolside or at the beach or in the middle of a forest: they are, for all intents and purposes, shatterproof.

“If you drop it on the floor, it just bounces,” says Boggs. It’s a qualcarry them, too, at $25 for a four-pack of plain glasses or a two-pack of glasses printed with a Santa Barbara logo. The Canary Hotel in downtown Santa Barbara uses them for their guests’ welcome pour at check-in and when the rooftop bar – with those awesome 360-degree views – is open.

And now, a new set of Wine Outside glasses. Two weeks ago, driven to act by the COVID fallout, the company introduced a limited edition of glasses

Sarah Boggs likes to reminisce about living out her formative years in New Orleans.

“People were constantly outside, constantly enjoying neighbors and friends, constantly going to festivals,” she recalls.

“And they were always drinking!”

Her move to Santa Barbara provided much of the same: an outdoor-driven lifestyle and plenty of good wine to drink. “We’re always outside, hiking or going to the beach, and the weather is mostly perfect,” says the mother of two and professor of English at Santa Barbara City College.

But one thing was missing: “I just wanted to be able to drink good wine outside from a nice, unbreakable wine glass.”

Boggs and her husband, Peter Oblander, a geologist and environmental consultant, launched Wine Outside in 2015. The premise of their side business: provide a drinking vessel that looks good, feels good, and makes sipping outdoors safe and convenient, even elegant.

Wine Outside features a diverse line of 18-ounce stemless tumblers that look a whole lot like crystal.

“One of the things that’s extraordiWine Outside was founded by SBCC professor Sarah Boggs and her husband, Peter Oblander. The pair has two daughters, Maddie, 14, and Grace, 10.

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Driven by the COVID fallout, the company introduced limited edition glasses printed with logos in the shapes of California and Texas. Fifty percent of the proceeds go to people in the food and beverage industry affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

ity that actually makes our glasses indoor-friendly, too, especially in households with thirsty kids and mishap-prone adults who want something simple but stylish from which to sip.”

The Wine Outside products are made from Eastman Tritan, a plastics alterative – a co-polyester – that is tough, lighter than glass and warp-resistant. Importantly, the glasses are free of industrial chemicals like BPA and EA. And they are dishwasher-safe.

The glasses sell throughout the South Coast, including Santa Barbara Gift Baskets, the Riviera Towel Company, and the El Capitan Beach Store. Gelson’s and the gates-side sundries shop at the Santa Barbara Airport printed with logos in the shapes of California and Texas – golden backdrops with a single heart in red, pink, teal or silver. Fifty percent of the proceeds from the sale of these glasses – $40 for a set of four and $24 for a pair – go to the Southern Smoke Foundation, whose emergency drive provides funds to people in the food and beverage industry who are affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

“Being a foodie, and going out to eat a lot, I really feel for restaurant workers,” says Boggs. “It’s one of the most obvious parts of our community that needs our support.” •MJ

Check out www.wineoutside.com.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 24) insults. I can talk to them. I could say your mother was a hamster and your father smelled like elderberries. All you have to do is send money.”

John is currently trapped in Los Angeles where he had been visiting his daughter, Camilla, before the coronavirus pandemic left him stranded in the U.S.

Big Spender

Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t come cheap!

The Montecito actress, 47, has published an article on her Goop website with advice for the perfect “date night” during the pandemic lockdown, but it costs nearly $4,000.

The tips are the same whether on a video date or enjoying a romantic night with your partner to make the most of being stuck at home together.

The article recommends 17 items considered essential for the date night, all handily available from Paltrow’s wellness website at a total cost of $3,700, without food or drink.

The cheapest item is a $24 mascara, while only a $250 Harry Josh hair dryer will do, with a $900 silk dress by Ulla Johnson. Other items include a gold cutlery set, $300 plates, a $370 decanter, $107 dessert plates, and a yak down throw. fiancé Orlando Bloom is currently like her 2008 hit “Hot N’Cold.”

The tony twosome are reportedly experiencing some “ups and downs” during her pregnancy with their daughter.

US Weekly quotes a friend of the duo saying the relationship between the 35-year-old American Idol judge and the 43-year-old Lord of the Rings star has “changed since she got pregnant.”

“Katy is dealing with the nerves of being a first-time parent and Orlando is stressing about having a baby in their lives at this time,” says the pal. “Katy is elated and very happy about becoming pregnant. She has always wanted to be a mom.”

Bumps in the Road

Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry’s relationship with her British actor

Congrats to Charley

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Egan, who works at Village Properties, is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and also earned a Masters at the University of Southern California.

He is also certified as a senior real estate specialist, a designation designed to help realtors meet the special needs of seniors. For 20 years Egan has also hosted educational seminars including for first time home buyers and homeowners facing foreclosure.

He is also a volunteer at the Hospice of Santa Barbara and has worked with Freedom 4 Youth and Homeboy Industries.

Fergie and Friends

The Duchess of York, ex-wife of Prince Andrew, has launched a daily YouTube show reading a series of children’s books to entertain youngsters during the coronavirus lockdown.

In the first episode of “Storytime with Fergie and Friends,” the 60-yearold put on a very animated performance reading the children’s classic Hairy Maclary by Lynley Dodd.

During the clip, the mother of princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughters said she will be joined by other “friends” in future episodes...

Rest in Peace

On a personal note, I mark the passing of legendary New York restaurateur Sirio Maccioni, who has died at his home in Tuscany, Italy, aged 88.

Working as a maître d’ at the historic women-only Colony Club in the late ‘60s, he opened his landmark eatery Le Cirque at New York’s Mayfair Regent Hotel on Park Avenue in 1974, before moving to the Helmsley Palace in 1997.

Le Cirque, where I would eat lunch regularly with an old friend, Maldwin Drummond, grandson of Chicago newspaper and department store magnate Marshall Field, launched the careers of many top chefs, notably Daniel Boulud, during its more than 40-year run, and was attended regularly by the likes of Jackie O, President Ronald Reagan, and countless Wall Street heavyweights, socialites and celebrities.

I met President Richard Nixon for the first time there when he was dining with Alexander Haig, his former White House chief of staff and Secretary of State under Reagan. He had bought a 1871 townhouse a tiara’s toss away on East 65th Street.

I vividly remember Sirio acting as doorman at the late publishing tycoon Malcolm Forbes’s socially gridlocked memorial service at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church on Park Avenue in February 1990, just a year after Malcolm’s legendary 70th birthday bash at his Palais Mendoub overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar in Tangier, when I flew in a chartered Air France Concorde from the presidential hangar at Kennedy Airport after breakfasting on food catered by Le Cirque.

An old friend, Archduchess Michaela von Hapsburg, the granddaughter of the last emperor of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Franz Joseph 1, who resided at Vienna’s 1441-room Schönbrunn Palace and died in 1916, was being denied entry to the 900-guest event, so I stepped in, explained who she was, and we both went in together past the velvet rope.

Sightings have been suspended during the coronavirus, given the social distancing edict from California governor Gavin Newsom.

They will return when the restrictions have been lifted.

Pip! Pip! – and be safe.

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To reach Priscilla, e-mail her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 805-969-3301. •MJ

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