An interesting picture, loaded with interviews with 10 Calif. natural winemakers. These people are devoted to minimal intervention in the vineyard, the winery, and the bottle: No pesticides, no weeding, no additives, no treatments, and minimal sulfur. The goal is to let the vineyard and the grape and the location speak in your glass. The problem that this movie also unearths is that up to now, these expressions can't be located in a blind tasting. The landscape doesn't matter yet, though maybe it will in the future when they get better at it. Nobody in the movie stands up for yeast inoculations, fertilizer, oxygenation, or any other common treatment; including such viewpoints would have made this a more polemical and probably more interesting movie. But as it is, it's definitely worth a look if you are a wine geek or you would like to become one.
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