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The Vineyard Spring 2011
The Vineyard Spring 2011
Rex Pickett
Miles and Jack are Back in Vertical
The Follow-up to Sideways
Sans Liege
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The follow-up novel to the blockbuster Sideways tracks the continuing story of
Miles Raymond and his buddy Jack. It’s seven years later. Miles has written
a novel that has been made into a wildly successful movie, and the movie has
changed his life. Jack, contrarily, is divorced, has a kid, and is on the skids.
Phyllis, Miles’s mom, has suffered a stroke that’s left her wheelchair-bound and
wasting away in assisted-living. She desperately wants to live with her sister in
Wisconsin. When Miles gets invited to be master of ceremonies at a Pinot Noir
festival in Oregon, he hatches a harebrained road trip. With Jack as his co-pilot,
he leases a handicapped-equipped rampvan, hires a pot-smoking Filipina caretaker
and, with his mother’s rascally Yorkie in tow, they take off for Wisconsin
via Oregon’s fabled Willamette Valley, where Miles is Master of ceremonies of
the International Pinot Festival. It is a road novel for the smart set and wine lover,
and anything but predictable.
““Rex [Pickett] shows that his gift for creating wildly funny scenes is quite intact.
The book is laugh-out-loud funny.... In the course of the trip, the characters of
Miles and his mother are well drawn. We come to like Miles more than we ever
did in Sideways, and nod knowingly about what he goes through... it is an entertaining
and touching book.”—Paul W. Jameson, NY Journal of Books
“Vertical—Rex Pickett’s long-anticipated sequel to his now iconic Sideways -- had
me alternately laughing and crying through this hilarious, heartbreaking and ultimately
moving meditation on Fame, Friendship and Family… Vertical managed
to break my heart and then put it back together again, piece by piece ... and should
abolish any lingering doubts whether the author just got “lucky” with Sideways.
This is a work to be both admired and savored like the great Willamette Valley
Pinots Miles exults over.”—Marco Mannone, Forth Magazine
“Rex Pickett’s novel Vertical continues the picaresque adventures of Miles and Jack.
It’s a feast. You can’t put it down. The humor and wit are irresistible… Pickett
has taken his writing and his characters to another level. I recommend you read
this novel and see for yourself.” —Paul Dresman, Writing at the Edge
“... I enthusiastically recommend Vertical … if you do venture down the road with
Miles and Jack you are likely to be satisfied and perhaps touched by the journey.”
— Tim Elliott, Wine Cast
“Sideways, ....is arguably the most influential wine-themed book that became a film
in American history. The film Sideways grossed $300 million...and people are still
debating whether it alone caused Pinot Noir sales to spike, or was merely a factor
in the variety’s astonishing success. Now we have the follow up story in Vertical...”
—Steve Heimoff, Wine Enthusiast
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Jack & Miles in Sideways
The Ultimate Package
Sideways the DVD (revisit Miles & Jack First)
Vertical the novel (read about their trip to Oregon)
And a bottle of 2009 Broadley Pinot Noir
Willamette Valley (savor what they savored!)
All for $39.99 plus shipping
For more details go to www.brownderby.com
ans Liege is a Rhone varietal project working with fruit from
“SPaso down to Santa Barbara. The concept of ‘without allegiance’
is not one of rebellion but rather an acknowledgment that
these varietals do not have a history here on the central coast. With
this youth comes a freedom to express the fruit and vineyards the
way I see them.” Curt Schalchlin, proprietor & winemaker
Wine Spectator 3/09 profiled Sans Liege as one
of “10 emerging California Rhone producers.”
2009 Sans Liege Call to Arms_____________________ 29.99
2008 Sans Liege Cotes-du-Coast___________________ 21.99
41% Viognier, 40% Roussanne, 19% Marsanne 250 cases produced
The 2008 Cotes du Coast is a powerful, multi-layered wine that
seemlessly directs your attention from ripe fruit, to rich spice to clean
minerality. Makes red wine drinkers “think again” (they love the
fullness and complexity)
2008 Sans Liege Mourvedre______________________ 37.99
2008/2009 Sans Liege Prophetess__________________ 39.99
2010 Groundworks Grenache Blanc Raso Robles___________ 17.99
2009 Groundworks Grenache Santa Barbara____________ 19.99
2010 Groundworks Grenache Rose Santa Barbara County_ ____ 13.99
Curt Schalchin
2007
Domaine Lafond
Lirac
La Ferme Romaine
he 2007 Lirac La Ferme Romaine is slightly more struc-
but it exhibits plenty of pepper, garrigue, and black
“Ttured,
fruit notes, more tannin than the Roc-Epine, and perhaps less exuberant
fruit. Nevertheless, it is concentrated, full-bodied, and
capable of lasting for 5-6 years.” Wine Advocate, rated 90/100
$22.99
Per bottle
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