Kickstarter

We're seeking supporters to help us film the next segment of our feature documentary, Vino Veritas. We're halfway through production, and this fall, we'll be covering harvest in one of three up-and-coming North American wine regions, and you get to decide where we go.

For more than a year, we've been interviewing winemakers, writers, bloggers, broadcasters, growers, collectors, chefs, laborers and folks involved in all aspects of the wine industry. We've covered a number of wine regions across four states, from the Midwest to the West Coast. We're capturing stories where the opening of a bottle of wine literally changed the course of people's lives. We're learning what wine means to our culture and how a particularly pioneering spirit has driven the growth of the wine business on this continent. Winemakers are storytellers. Every bottle holds tales of geography, history, culture and the risk, ambition, craftsmanship and artistry.

To film this next chapter, we need your help. The contributions you make to this campaign will allow us to film harvest in one of these three locations: the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, the Grand Mesa region of Colorado, or Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Virginia.

This chapter of the film is dubbed "The Extremists," and it's about people pushing the envelope of growing fine wine grapes. The funds we raise will be used to cover the travel expenses for our small crew. We'll keep you posted with exclusive, behind the scenes footage and updates throughout the process, and we have a number of incentives for all levels of giving.

Okanagan Valley, British Columbia - This is the northernmost premium wine growing region in North America. These growers were once considered eccentric, but they're now producing amazing wines on par with the best wines around. And they're on the front lines of climate change; new vineyards are creeping northward and to higher elevations in locations that were off limits only a short time ago.

Grand Mesa, Colorado - This region in Colorado features the highest elevation vineyards in North America, and perhaps even the entire world. Here growers fight extreme weather and conditions in the pursuit of turning this region into a viable contender for premium wines. 

Monticello, Virginia - Thomas Jefferson once dreamed of growing fine wine grapes on Monticello, though his efforts to establish grapes on his property never succeeded. But now Virginia has turned into an up and coming wine region, and vinifera grapes now flourish on the grounds of the third president's estate.

Which one will make it into our film? You can pledge $1 or more and vote - we want our audience to tell us what they'd like to see next! This is your chance to help out.

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