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Make sure you listen you our VINTERVIEW with Chris which dropped last week! We cover his short films, branded content company, and how he came to direct our favorite wine documentary of the past many years, EDEN (2024) about the Mount Eden Winery and Vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains, considered to have the oldest lineage of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in all of North America!

WATCH CHRIS' DOCUMENTARY EDEN

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• Instagram
• Website

And today Chris joins us to talk about a favorite movie - the Western to End All Westerns, Sergio Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST from 1968.

PAIRIED WITH:

• Alegre Valganon Rioja Blanco 2024
• Pax Syrah, Sonoma Hillsides 2023
• Borgo Savaian "Aransat" Orange Wine, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Italy

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Today’s VINTERVIEW is with filmmaker, branded content creator, and now documentarian Chris McGilvray.

We chat with Chris about his narrative short filmmaking, how he quickly realized this was never going to lead to the kind of breakthrough previous generations enjoyed, pivoted to branded content and became a champion of pushing that type of work into more organic and authentic expressions, and then segued from that into his first feature length documentary about the Mount Eden Winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains, considered to have the longest lineage of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in all of North America.

We thought this Vinterview would run 20-30 minutes. We had the whole thing Q&A’d scripted out and it was only 5 Q’s! But the conversation evolved organically and we talked at length about the themes of the documentary, themes you rarely see in a Wine doc yet pertain to nearly every aspect of the wine industry.

Chris' Short Films:

• The Silence
• Damage
• Out of Nowhere
• Terroir

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Dallas asked me: "What's the creepiest movie you've ever seen? Not the scariest - the creepiest."

I only had to think about it for a short moment: PULSE. A movie that is creepy, unnerving, unsettling, and so, so easy to sink into.

We dive deep into its themes of human lonliness, the rise of the internet and the moment of Y2K, and how PULSE imagines the human world might end. Or, perhaps, how it's already ended.

PAIRED WITH:

• 2016 Loma Prieta Amorosa Vineyard Pinotage, Lodi, CA
• 2023 Gambler's Ghost Cabernet Sauvignon, North Coast, CA

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This week we are joined by no-budget filmmaker Courtney Daniels, writer/director of:

• WHAT OTHER COUPLES DO
• BEDROOM STORY
• IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S LA

And writer of the book Yes You Can: How to Make a Movie for Almost No Money

You can follow Courtney's journey as she films her 4th feature at:

COURTNEY DANIELS SUBSTACK

and

COURTNEY DANIELS WEBSITE

THE WINES:

• HUSCH Late Harvest Gewurtztraminer, Anderson Valley, California
• MIRAVAL Provence Rose, Cote du Provence, France
• Whiny Baby "Obsessed" Red, who fucking knows?

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Honoring the 10th Anniversary of actor Anton Yelchin's passing in 2016 at the insanely young age of 27. PORTO was released posthumously, and since our own Dave Baxter recenty visited the city of Porto for the first time, and currently sells Portuguese wines in LA as his day job, this seemed like a perfect choice for us to tackle.

This is a challenging film, equal parts mesmerizing and frustrating, a film that plays with time, rejects psychology, yet is confined to a magical evening between a French woman and an American man in Northern Portugal.

THE WINES:

2010 Jose Maria de Fonseca “Alambre” Moscatel de Setubal, Portugal

2022 Bojador Vinho de Talha Branco, Alentejo, Portugal

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Sentimental Value is the 6th feature film by Joachim Trier and co-writer Eskil Vogt, and his second partnering with actress Renate Reinsve after The Worst Person in the World in 2021.

THE WINES:

Zulal Areni, Vayots Dzor, Armenia

2023 K Vintners Art Den Hoed Viognier

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From regular SNL short sketches to Super Bowl ad to feature film, MACGRUBER is the dumb aka authentically funny parody of MACGYVER that flopped on arrival but quickly accumulated a cult following and increased recognition with home viewings.

Two of those fans are yours truly - having watched MacGruber when Netflix was still shipping phsyical DVDs to my mailbox - and our special guest this episode JON STAHL, writer on the TV show VEEP and Fox's HOUSEBROKEN.

You can currently find Jon at his Substack: How Not to be a TV Writer

And be sure to watch his YouTube WebSeries: CASEN POINTE: TRUE CRIME DETTECTIVE

Also Jon's 4-Part micro-series UPSTAGE

THE WINES (and Kombucha):

Synergy Trilogy Kombucha

2022 Revelation Vineyards 100% Vidal Blanc

Four buck chuck Pinot

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Today we tackle Ron Haward's GUNG HO and regret it instantly.

Perfectly inoffensive in 1986, as all Ron Howard movies are; and perfectly offensive in 2026, as all Ron Howard movies are.

THE WINES:

Viña Marty’s “Goutte d’Argent” Sauvignon Blanc, Aconcagua, Chile

Japanese old fashioned

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