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Forum: Wine Talk Posted By: James Walker Post Time: 04-18-2007 at 12:47 AM

Yeah, I saw the movie “Bottle Shock,’’ and I will tell you that it is no “Sideways.’’ It’s loosely inspired by the famous 1976 Judgment of Paris, the blind tasting at which underdog American wines beat out the French favorites and gained international credibility. On one level, I suppose, it is simply an amiable...

It appears I won't need to wait for Bottle Shock to come to the Columbia Valley (which could be awhile because we're far from being a primary market for film releases). I just returned from a week of vacation (spent writing about wine) and found a review copy of the movie on my desk, thanks to the effort of Managing Editor Eric Degerman, who worked with the agency to receive the DVD...

“Bottle Shock” is a movie about the famous “Judgement of Paris”. Judgement of Paris was a wine competition organized in Paris in 1976 by Steven Spurrier, in which french wine experts did a blind-tasting of top quality chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon wines from France and from California ... ........Bottle Shock “Bottle Shock” ist ein Film über die berühmte “Weinjury von Paris” bzw. “Judgement...

The new movie Bottle Shock premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and GrapeRadio was there to cover it. The screenplay is told through the lives of Jim and Bo Barrett of Chateau Montelena, whose Chardonnay went on to win the competition, and the movie chronicles the events leading up ... of this pivotal wine event needed to be told via film. For more info on Bottle Shock the Movie...

The new movie “Bottle Shock” just hit selected theaters, and as you might expect, it’s already ... close look at the next major motion picture dealing with vino. Perhaps unfairly to Bottle Shock ... . Like bottle shock (the condition), the movie can be a little bit disjointed at the beginning ... actors in Bottle Shock, as Chateau Montelena’s Jim Barrett. After that, you get a cast of models...

As regular readers of this blog may know, the 2007 Easter frost took out over 90% of the white wine. It was a "bottle shock" however to see how little white wine there is after it was bottled last week; a scant 34 cases of Riesling (184 cases last year) and 48 cases of white Revelation (125 cases last year) and 0 cases of Viognier/Roussanne (303 cases last year). The 2007 white Revelation...

Ancora un film sul vino e ancora un film...(ma guarda tu)...americano. Questa volta si parla di vini (... beh ovviamente) californiani e di quella famosa degustazione tenutasi nel 1976 a Pargi. Degustazione che ha sancito definitivamente il valore dei vini californiani....insomma i francesi ammisero che i vini californiani erano buoni ...

... inviting on that sunny August day. Where better to enjoy a good bottle of riesling, some Hudson Valley ... years of bottle age! To the nose, this pinot showed dried fruits such as cranberry, cherry and orange ... appearance and flavor, and while this could have certainly been caused by an “off” bottle, I do remember ... to having the odd “off” bottle, and I do hope that’s the case, but I sense that something went awry...