WORLD'S
FIRST FILM FESTIVAL
SOMMELIER!
Star
Sommelier Christopher Sawyer
to Curate
Gourmet
Food
and Wine Pairings at Festival
Screenings
What
makes The Sonoma Valley Film
Festival unlike any other
premier film festival in the
world?
It's all about paired
pleasures: delicious local
cuisine, award-winning Sonoma
Valley wines and exciting new
movies from America and all over
the world.
Taking
that "Cinema Epicuria"
experience to the next level, sommelier-to-the-stars
Christopher
Sawyer has taken
on the mantle as the world's
first -- and only -- Official
Film Festival Sommelier.
Sawyer,
private sommelier to the likes of
Gordon Getty and Pixar’s
Oscar-winning creative guru John
Lasseter, and wine consultant for
an impressive roster of private
clientele, including Mikael and
Raisa Gorbachev, Jerry Brown and
George Lucas, has a
near-encyclopedic knowledge of the
wines, wineries and terroir of the
Sonoma Valley.
Sawyer
has a growing legion of fans among
wine lovers and industry insiders
around the world, including master
winemakers, themselves. “I
can’t think of a better choice
for sommelier of the Film
Festival,” raves Randall
Watkins, Winemaker at Moon
Mountain Winery.
Jeff
Stewart, V.P. Winemaker at Buena
Vista Winery, is also a fan.
"This is a sommelier
with great passion, who can
bring together the art of film and
the art of winemaking."
A
huge film buff, and a master of
"wine flights" (wine
comparison tastings), Sawyer will
be responsible for curating the
trademark "Cinema Epicuria"
wine and food tastings that
precede every single screening at
the Film Festival.
“To
me, pairing movies with popcorn
and soda is not only dull, but a
bit passe," says Sawyer,
"At the Sonoma Valley Film
Festival, holding a glass of wine
in your hand gives you a sense of
place, culture and history, and
can compliment the theme of the
movie as well.”
