Watchatlantic!

Go to www.watchatlantic.com for a clip of the show. The site is underconstruction so forgive us...but we wanted you to see it right away!

Give us feedback...we really want it!

Have fun and thanks!

Moving the Ball

Had a wonderful meeting in New York with a woman who is interested in husbanding BTS through the process at a major web content provider...plus she's a writer with a column and is also interested in conducting an interview with Spencer to be turned into a pre-review and then a review...once we launch.

Getting ready for Cannes and the MIP-TV/Com Festival in April...hoping to secure a deal...fingers crossed.

Also have tentative interviews set up with Georges DuBoeuf (Beaujolais), Gerard Bertrand (Languedoc) and Didier Noel (Cotes du Rhone.) These will be incorporated into future episodes.

Moving right along!

Moving Right Along

We're getting closer to a web presence where you'll be able to finally see "Behind the Seeds." We have some top designers/strategists from New York and Pennsylvania on the task and hope to be up and online very soon.

We are also getting ready for Cannes in April...MIP-TV...the convention of content producers and buyers...where we hope to find a home for "Behind The Seeds."

We have also been working on our next episode...should know more in a few weeks and we'll post the info here.

Also still looking for any good ideas for upcoming episodes so if you have any please leave a comment and maybe some good contact info, either for yourself and/or the subject of a program you'd like us to produce.

More later...stay tuned!

The Web

Well, we're getting our website organized. We had a long conversation with a designer the other day and he is helping to define strategy, look and purpose.

We hope to have the site up and functional soon so we can begin to show clips of the program.

We want to invite feedback as well as begin to develop a following.

We may be able to get a few more episodes in the can because Spencer will be in Europe in April and we hope to have the resources to join him for a couple of interviews, possibly in France, Spain and/or Italy.

We may do a piece on Georges DuBoeuf (Beaujolais), one on Gerard Bertrand (Languedoc) and another on Didier Noel (Cotes du Rhone)...we'll see.

So, "onward and upward." We're looking forward to actually having the show out there for all to enjoy.

Ideas...?

So...we're researching our next few episodes and wanted to put out to anyone...if you have an interesting story or know of one that we could produce on "Behind the Seeds with Spencer Christian"...let us know...maybe we can put you on the crew as an associate producer and you'd get to go too...

Remember...passion in the wine world...what folks do because of there love of wine...from celebrities to everyman (woman)...anybody...with passion!!

Onward and Upward...

Moving the ball here...hoping for an airdate on a station in California...and hoping for some investment toward achieving our marketing goals...

One idea is to attend the MIP-TV Festival in Cannes in April...bringing Mohammed to the Mountain, etc.

But the show looks good, Spencer is great and we're looking at 2010 as the year of "BTS."

Any help from anyone will be appreciated!

An Introduction...

Welcome to "Behind The Seeds" , hereinafter referred to affectionately as BTS.

BTS is a television program about passion. It's about what people do because of their love of wine.

The show is hosted by the wonderful Spencer Christian. You'll remember Spencer from his many years as a member of the ensemble on ABC's "Good Morning America" some years back.

Spencer is now the host of his own talk show, "The View From The Bay", on KGO-TV in San Francisco. Anyone familiar with Spencer will know about his love of wine. When the creator of BTS, Kevin Weyl, (Creative Director at Atlantic Video Productions in Amherst, Massachusetts) met Spencer while on assignment for ABC News in New York the two of them hit a common note and BTS was born. The intention of the show is to travel the world to discover people whose lives have been deeply affected by their love of wine.

The pilot episode centers on just such a person. Mia Wood, the show's producer, found Dario Sattui, a well known winemaker in The Napa Valley of California. Dario is the great-grandson of Vittorio Sattui, a winemaker from San Francisco, who made delicious wine in the old world Italian tradition in the Mission District of the city during the early part of the 2oth century.

Vittorio's winery closed as a result of Prohibition and young Dario had dreamed for many years of restarting it.

With very little money, he founded V.Sattui Winery on Route #29 just south of St. Helena and he was on his way.

The other great passion in Dario's life had always been medieval architecture. He had developed his love of the style while travelling and living in Europe just out of college in the 1960s.

Because of the success of V.Sattui Winery, Dario decided to take his dreams head on. He decided to build a...castle! Not in Tuscany or Provence...but in...Napa.

So, in 2007. after nearly 30 years and over 30 million dollars, Castello di Amorosa opened to the public in Calistoga, California. Dario imported stone, fixtures and stone masons from Tuscany and the result is not a replica of a castle..but a real, medieval castle...in fact! (you can see pictures at the castle's website, http://www.castellodiamorosa.com/)

In BTS, Spencer spends time with Dario and goes on a complete tour of the castle. He tastes the wine and gets to know Dario in a way that few people have.

Watch for the episode of BTS that features Dario and his passion...Castello di Amorosa.

You'll be amazed.

We hope to see you soon on "Behind the Seeds"...