Blood Into Wine is a documentary set mostly in Arizona. The story is mainly about the rock star/artist Maynard Keene from Tool. During this film we see and his journey of self discovery through wine and wine making. The documentary looks at Maynard’s life and journey through music and his transition to wine. His love of the towns and hillsides in Europe encouraged and spurred him harvest grapes and start a vineyard in rocky northern Arizona. Maynard fell in love with a the small town called Jerome “ the wickedest city it the west”.
Maynard Keene and his business partner a wine expert and Eric Glomski really were pioneers of wine making in Arizona. They invested millions of dollars, years of risks to really make this work. The film takes there concept of theme of change and uniqueness and wine being much more than a wine but a form of self expression just like Maynard’s music. The film is informative also light-hearted and funny and it really gives you a different outlook on wine.
Maynard Keene and his business partner a wine expert and Eric Glomski really were pioneers of wine making in Arizona. They invested millions of dollars, years of risks to really make this work. The film takes there concept of theme of change and uniqueness and wine being much more than a wine but a form of self expression just like Maynard’s music. The film is informative also light-hearted and funny and it really gives you a different outlook on wine.
The Arizona location for a vineyard is unique with lots of reptiles, cactus deserts, canyons, Native Americans, cowboys. Hardly a place you have a vineyard. Criticism that Arizona was to hot but the main weather drawback was actually the snow and cold weather. But Maynard and everyone really keep referring to the uniqueness of the region. The peace and being able to see the moon and the stars was a big draw in. They grew the grape on a rocky slope where Eric believe once was an ancient lake bed. This territory may have contributed to the flavors. Variety of grapes that were grown and many different wines were made.
Tool was a rock band and Maynard decided he wanted to do something else. Maynard believes that art is a form of self discovery. This film really investigates Maynard transition for rock to wine making.
Eric, natural enthusiast and the business partner of Maynard reallygave a different out look on wine. He has a strong love of the land and earth “thinks it’s our responsibility to earth and our self to expand our senses”. Experience of taking what the earth brings and creating something that represents something. Our responsibility to develop our senses to get the most out of life. Really a one with the earth about it really about conserving naturally resources gave a different look on the wine while maynard took it very personally. Eric really had a extreme passiong for the earth the grapes. While maynard you kincondiser more a artist eash bottle could be lieka song for eri ceaxh bottle represents a speic point and place intime a mixture of things together into something wonderful. Differrenting perspectives
This documentary also looked at the processes in volved in winemakrinf. It touched on pruning, bottling letting the wine set and we got to see a little bit what was going on as they explained it. We saw some of the wine growing setbacks, with weather monsoons humidity raccoons snack s and gophers. We saw how grape are easy to grow you don’t need huge amounts of water like other crops such as cotton and corn. They also look at wine scores ad political and style driven and some of the controversy on these. They even have a wine critic come in and rate some of the caduesus wines.
One of the most touching moments of the documentary was when Maynard bottled his first bottle of Judith. He talks about his mother brain aneurysm when she was 31 how it was hard on him. He spread her ashes over the vineyard and that way his mom would get to travel the world. Really made this more emotional connection to the vineyard. And saw the personal and emotional attachement Maynard had with his vineyard.
This movie as it relates to wine enthusiast, I think after being in this class and really learning about wine, regions and unique tastes gave me a better appreciation and understanding of what they were doing and the tastings’ could really apply what we learned in class to what was going on. The movie also has comic relief and funny clips to really make it easy to watch for someone who is not that interested in wine. I would definitely recommend this to a wine audience because it give you a different outlook on wine not just taste but on regions and personal preferences and the story and date behind each bottle.
Eric, natural enthusiast and the business partner of Maynard reallygave a different out look on wine. He has a strong love of the land and earth “thinks it’s our responsibility to earth and our self to expand our senses”. Experience of taking what the earth brings and creating something that represents something. Our responsibility to develop our senses to get the most out of life. Really a one with the earth about it really about conserving naturally resources gave a different look on the wine while maynard took it very personally. Eric really had a extreme passiong for the earth the grapes. While maynard you kincondiser more a artist eash bottle could be lieka song for eri ceaxh bottle represents a speic point and place intime a mixture of things together into something wonderful. Differrenting perspectives
This documentary also looked at the processes in volved in winemakrinf. It touched on pruning, bottling letting the wine set and we got to see a little bit what was going on as they explained it. We saw some of the wine growing setbacks, with weather monsoons humidity raccoons snack s and gophers. We saw how grape are easy to grow you don’t need huge amounts of water like other crops such as cotton and corn. They also look at wine scores ad political and style driven and some of the controversy on these. They even have a wine critic come in and rate some of the caduesus wines.
One of the most touching moments of the documentary was when Maynard bottled his first bottle of Judith. He talks about his mother brain aneurysm when she was 31 how it was hard on him. He spread her ashes over the vineyard and that way his mom would get to travel the world. Really made this more emotional connection to the vineyard. And saw the personal and emotional attachement Maynard had with his vineyard.
This movie as it relates to wine enthusiast, I think after being in this class and really learning about wine, regions and unique tastes gave me a better appreciation and understanding of what they were doing and the tastings’ could really apply what we learned in class to what was going on. The movie also has comic relief and funny clips to really make it easy to watch for someone who is not that interested in wine. I would definitely recommend this to a wine audience because it give you a different outlook on wine not just taste but on regions and personal preferences and the story and date behind each bottle.
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