Watch Pinot: Sonoma Dreams

"Pinot: Sonoma Dreams" follows Jamie Kutch over the course of a year as he loses one vineyard to frost, negotiates and learns from growers and other winemakers in the close community of the wine country in Sonoma, where everyone seems to know one another. This is the other side of "Sideways", the hard work, disappointments, community spirit and occasional glory of giving a dream everything you've got. Filmmakers Stefan Sargent and Tricia Rose used a variety of novel camera techniques. Close range aerial shots are from a remote controlled model helicopter. Many sequences were shot with two and sometimes three HD cameras. On March 9, 2005, Wall Street trader and investment banker Jamie Kutch, then 31, started a thread on a popular Internet wine bulletin board: ``My entire life is changed. I am moving from NYC to California to make Pinot Noir.... Keep an eye out for '05 Kutch Pinot Noir in 2 years.''
Kutch quit his job and persuaded his girlfriend of eight years to join him. He crushed two tons of grapes for his first vintage of 150 cases at tiny cult winemaker Kosta Browne Winery in Sonoma County's Russian River Valley and was getting advice from some of the region's star winemakers. ``It was like being on an all-star high-school team,'' he says. ``I was sweating, drenched, working 14-hour days -- and happy.'' This is the other side of "Sideways."

Pinot: Sonoma Dreams is a 2009 documentary with a runtime of 1 hour and 14 minutes.