An Irish filmmaker intent on crafting what he calls a “cinematic toast to Ireland’s culinary and drinks legacy” has found two of his subjects halfway around the world, in the vineyards of Northern California.
In “A Sip of Irish,” now available to rent online, Ireland-based filmmaker Frank Mannion looks beyond the country’s better-known exports – Guinness and whiskey – to celebrate “the achievements of the Irish diaspora,” he said in an interview with The Press Democrat.
That search for the far-flung Irish spirit led him to two local winemakers with deep ancestral roots: Bo Barrett of Chateau Montelena Winery in Calistoga and Karen Francis DeGolia of Limerick Lane Cellars in Healdsburg…