Tiny Vineyards, the award-winning documentary on home winemaking, to screen in Placerville
Beat the heat on the afternoon of August 12 at the Imagination Theater, El Dorado Fairgrounds
Presented by the El Dorado Home Winemakers Club, Tiny Vineyards documents a subculture of private viticulturists and home winemakers dedicated to producing small batches of wine for all the right reasons, not the least of which is self-consumption. Filmmaker turned winemaker, Joseph Daniel, will host a wine reception at 2:00 p.m., movie starts at 3:00 p.m. Tickets available at www.edhwm.net
As romantic and fulfilling as it might appear to some, small-scale winemaking is still a craft fraught with disaster, an art subject to the vagaries of nature, weather, terroir and human endeavor. Blending science with alchemy, agrarian zeal with ingenuity, these amateur enophiles can sometimes make wine rivaling that of the best commercial wineries . . . and, sometimes not! This feature-length film follows a dozen such hobby vineyard owners through their annual winemaking ritual in Sonoma, California. A journey that will have deep significance to winemakers and wine enthusiasts anywhere in the world.
Tiny Vineyards has screened to sold-out crowds at film festivals and private showings across the country. Highlights include premiering at the Sonoma International Film Festival, winning Best Documentary at the Seattle Food & Wine Festival, acceptance as an Official Selection at the International Wine & Film Festival, and the Vero Beach Wine & Film Festival in Florida, and playing to enthusiastic attendees at WineMaker Magazine’s annual conference in San Louis Obispo.