LOVE SIDEWAYS? GET READY TO GO VERTICAL!

Calling all wine lovers, movie-goers, and book readers:

Vertical: Passion and Pinot on the Oregon Wine Trail, the cult wine classic's new sequel is coming this summer!

 
 A Tale about Mother and Son
 "In the new book, Pickett exploits three parallel worlds: the novel, the movie and his own life. Miles is forever marveling at his sudden celebrity...as the journey heads from Oregon to Wisconsin, you sense the writer, clear-headed and determined, narrows his focus on Miles and his mother. He insists they better understand each other and resolve a lifetime of distrust and hurt feelings. These passages contain the most powerful writing in the book.”
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter                                                        
                                                                        
 More Nuanced and Mature than Sideways
 "This follow-up to "Sideways" is a more nuanced but equally hilarious and touching story of Our Boys years after they alerted the world to the joys of the pinot noir grape...Pickett's writing and plotting seems to have matured since his first effort that led to the hit movie, Sideways. In short, this is even more graceful writing -- Vertical is Five Stars." 
Rudy Maxa, PBS Network
 
                                                                 
 It’s ten years later and these two road buddies—Jack, now divorced, and Miles, dealing with new found fame as a writer—reunite and travel to Oregon’s famed Pinot Noir country to the International Pinot Noir Celebration. Unable to keep it simple, Miles steals his septuagenarian mother away from senior housing prison, which means bringing her pot smoking caretaker as well. Not only do Miles and Jack find themselves in troubled, new relationships and almost unfathomable hilarious situations, but they confront sobering challenges of being over 40—and looking at 70. All of this set up in the heart-stoppingly, wine rich beautiful landscape of Oregon’s own Burgundy country. As one wine critic wrote, “If you like Sideways, you will love Vertical.”
 
Official Release available on Amazon Summer 2018, and this website.

 

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“It’s amazing that a sequel to Sideways can be written, not to mention be as good, or in this case, arguably better. Hats off (or corks out) to Mr. Pickett.”

Kyle Hosner, Book Reviewer

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