Year:
2008
Tagline:
«Based on a true story of love, victory and fermentation.»
Country:
USA
Genres:
Drama, Comedy
The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris".
It's not about getting it done. It's about getting it done right.
If one person succeeds, we all succeed.
The world breaks everyone... and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
— Why don't I like you?
— Cause you think I'm an asshole. And I'm not really. I'm just British, and, well, you're not.
It all begins with the soil, the vine, the grape. The smell of the vineyard. Like inhaling birth. It awakens some... ancestral... some... primordial... anyway, some deeply imprinted... and probably subconscious place in my soul.
— One can't just decide to be a vintner, and then conveniently become one. There are dynasties at play.
— That isn't true in California.
— I rest my case.
— You're a snob.
— Am I?
— It limits you.
— I was surprised by the quality of California wines. And their originality. In the Napa Valley, there is interest in experimental methods. To avant-garde methods.
— What's he saying?
— Where I come from, they call it a left-handed compliment. But I don't think they have a name for it in England. It's too embedded in their culture.
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