The line of videocassettes released by Gourmet Video is unique in the adult field. Shot directly on videotape, the hour-long tapes are crammed with huffing-an-puffing sexual encounters, played out by gorgeous femmes and handsome, well-endowed studs. Because each edition is professionally shot directly on video, a special immediacy is brought to the viewer: Those participating in the lust-filled encounters are simply not performers —they're real, in-the-flesh people, living out fantasies that can come true.

Valley Vixens, a Gourmet release, is one of the finest hours the company has yet put together. It features a variety of sexual couplings, caught in face-to-face —and face to genitalia— intimacy.

The vixens in this valley are actually a group of horny gals out to entertain an entourage of young businessmen on a lazy afternoon lunch-break. The action takes place in the home of Shana and Steve, a sexually liberated couple filled with horny needs that must be satisfied. Steve has had fantasies about rubbing his member all over the breasts of Shana's big-busted friend Mona. Shana, meanwhile, is hot to take anyone on.

So it's Businessmen vs Valley Vixens, as Steve fulfills his desire for Mona and Shana gives a 19 year-old junior-executive an initiation in carnality. All this happens while another panting female, Inez, quivers to the magic of the sensual powers of Steve's friend.

Everyone involved in the blustery proceedings is attractive to the max: Shana (Shana Grant) is blonde, blowsy and looks bitchin' in black peek-aboo lingerie; Mona (Mona Page) is a sexual animal with a set of bosoms that would make Raquel blush; and Inez (Inez in the) is a feisty firecracker who makes her point continually telling her mate, "Oh baby, it feels so big." Even the gentlemen are striking, with their California, sun-tanned good looks.

All aspects of the production are well-handled. Lighting, tape quality and camera-work are fine, and a nifty jazz score is used inthe background throughout to highlight the tape's best climaxes.

Valley Vixens gets a big "Fer Sure" on my adult checklist.