Franciscan Estate Winery in Napa
An inside look at a premium winery in Napa California, Franciscan Estates. Join Loni of Stark Insider on a behind the scenes tour of a 240,000 case production facility in the heart of Napa Valley on this episode.
US wine region obtains appellation protection in Europe for the first time
Napa Valley, California, 18th October 2007
1. Wide shot American Canyon, Napa Valley in California, at dawn
2. Wide shot of vineyard with mansion on top of a hill
3. Wide shot of vineyard, noise of tractors in the background
4. Close up of grapes hanging from vines
5. Close up of grapes
6. Pull focus of grapes hanging from vines
7. Mid of grapes hanging from vines
8. Mid of pickers walking in vineyard and carrying bins to harvest
9. Wide of pickers harvesting with tractor steering between two rows of vines
10. Wide of tractor entering two rows of vines on a steep slope
11. Mid of picker sharpening his hook knife
12. Close up of hand of picker sharpening hook knife
13. Mid of picker clipping grapes from vine
14. Close up of grapes in a bin with hands taking foliage away from grapes
15. Mid of picker with white bandanna picking grapes and sliding to the next vine
16. Close up of picker as he grapple grapes from a vine
17. Wide shot of young picker on a tractor, waiting for the full load of grapes
18. Mid shot of young picker driving tractor toward the camera
Rutherford, CA - 8 October 2007
19. Wide exterior of Grgich Hills Winery, with US and Croatian flags waving
20. Wide of grapes crushing machine and workers
21. Mid of grapes flowing on rolling tape of crushing machine and workers cleaning grapes from foliage
22. Close up of grapes flowing on tape
23. Close up of grapes falling into crushing machine
24. Grape juice flowing out of pipe
25. Wide of wine maker Mike Grgich talking with a guest at his winery
26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike Grgich, Owner of Grgich Hills Winery:
You can make wine by art alone or by science alone or by technology alone. But if you use all three of them you can achieve the top.
27. Mid shot of black and white picture of Mike Grgich during the Seventies (courtesy Mike Grgich)
28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike Grgich, Owner, Grgich Hills Winery
In stores that they don't have a tasting it's very hard, if you did not taste those wines. It is more luck than anything else. In many cases the label decides. So the label is very important.
29. Wide of bartender pouring wine for tasting
San Francisco, CA - 12 October 2007
30. Cut away of books reading Wine Guide
31. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jon Bonne, San Francisco Chronicle Wine Editor:
The Europeans have been much more rigorous about protecting not only the name and the place but also the specific product. In the case of the American system they want to protect the place but they want to have the freedom to make whatever they like.
32. Cut away Jon Bonne's hands
33. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jon Bonne, San Francisco Chronicle Wine Editor:
The next probable fight that it is going to come is whether� if Napa wants to sign on for EU type protections, does that eventually mean that the name protection, the appellations that are provided in the US aren't going to be strict enough that they are going to start regulating the types of wines that you can make. That's probably never going to happen.
San Francisco, CA - 18 October 2007
34. Mid shot of exterior of California Wine Merchant
35. Mid of sommelier Sarah Krupp smelling wine
36. Close up of sommelier Sarah Krupp tasting wine
37. Close up of hand writing notes
38. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sarah Krupp, Sommelier at California Wine Merchant:
The quality of wine from Napa valley is extremely high. And in part because the people who are buying land there are very serious about what they are doing.
39. Cut away of bottles of Napa wine
40. Close up of bottle of Cabernet, rolling and showing the price ($150,00)
41. Mid shot of Sara Krupp showing bottles on shelves
Napa Downtown, CA - 18 October 2007
42. Wide exterior of Napa County building in the evening
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