Bottle Shock, Now in Theaters
When I first read about this movie, I wasn’t too excited. Now that I’ve seen the trailer, I can’t wait. It’s based on the 1976 “Judgment of Paris” in which American Chardonnays and Cabernet Savignons were pitted against their French counterparts. The movie chronicles the journey of Steven Spurrier, a British wine merchant who travels to the US to squash the notion that California had begun producing wine that rivaled the French. It’s showing in an hour, but I’ll probably wait until the weekend before I go see it. Currently, it’s not playing at either of the Alamo Drafthouses, which is a shame. This is the ideal movie for that setting.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:50 am
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August 12th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Sorry I’ve been out of action since Florida. Just saw the trailer for this movie before we saw Brideshead Revisited. In fact Brideshead has got several really great wine scenes in it too, but we are definitely headed to see Bottle Shock as well. I’m well into Accidental Connoisseur and of course the CONTEST is featured in it early on.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Saw the movie last night. It is well done, nice to have a movie about wine, but somewhat predictable I’d guess even to someone who is not familiar with the story. A bit like drinking a run-of-the-mill CA Chardonnay in fact. I came home to some Mondavi Cab though, and it went down just fine.