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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!

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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.

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• 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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