Some of you that are interested in fine foods and local production might be interested in an up coming documentary on PBS.  Vintage: The Winemaker’s Year is a documentary about Virginia wines that airs Tuesday, October 5 at 8 pm and Thursday, October 7 at 9:30 pm on WCVE PBS.  Give it a look if it sounds interesting.  Below is the teaser:

“Vintage: The Winemaker’s Year” is a feature-length documentary exploring the rapid growth of the wine industry in Virginia and its increasing impact on the state’s cultural, social, and economic landscape. The film premieres on the Community Idea Stations in coordination with Virginia Wine Month.Filmed and presented in high definition widescreen format, the narrative of the film is comprised of two intertwining strands- the story of the wine industry’s rise from humble beginnings and the tale of the creation of the state’s 2008 vintage. Vintage is an observational style documentary with the players and places of the Monticello Wine Region in Central Virginia serving as its main characters.

The film examines the factors that make Virginia unique amongst the wine producing regions of the United States and explores why two hundred years after Thomas Jefferson’s failure to cultivate grapes at Monticello the region is finally flourishing as a producer of quality wines.

Turns out I was wrong.  The movie they saw wasn’t Food Inc it was Fresh.  As you can see there are a lot of people that are excited about the clean agriculture movement.

To the right is the trailer for Fresh.  I will get some of the farm attendees to post their thoughts  in the comments.  If you have seen this movie please share your thoughts in the comments as well.

Alan, Carol, Bryn, David, and Grace will be attending a community showing of Food Inc this evening (Tuesday 7/28) at the Rockbridge County High School.  I haven’t yet seen it but it looks great.  I’ll ask them to post their thoughts in the comments.

The video to the right is the trailer for Food Inc and will take 2:15 minutes of your time. Click on the little box at the lower right to get a full screen version.