A forty year-old wine tasting makes an unlikely Hollywood blockbuster. Move over Sideways. The historic wine taste-off where California bettered Bordeaux and Burgundy in 1976 is the unlikely inspiration for two new wine films, The Judgement of Paris and Bottle Shock . Gourmet Traveller's Wine reports on the celluloid controversy between two directors and two Californian wineries over "the blind...

Screenwriter and vintner Robert Mark Kamen is currently writing the screenplay for the upcoming Judgment of Paris movie, based on the famous Paris wine tasting of 1976 that brought the California wine industry to a new level of acclaim. The movie will be an adaptation of George Taber's book, and production is expected to begin this fall. "Before the Paris tasting, any discussion of fine wine...

Forum: Wine Talk Posted By: Neal Martin Post Time: 07-30-2007 at 03:02 PM

Bottle Shock, one of the films about the 1976 Paris Tasting, has finished shooting and will premier at the Sundance Film Festival in January...

Steven Spurrier has accused the producers of a rival ‘Judgement of Paris' film of defamation and threatened to sue in the strongest possible terms...

The obsession with comparative tastings shows no sign of letting up, with the South Africans holding their own ‘Judgement of Paris' tomorrow...

The obsession with comparative tastings shows no sign of letting up, with the South Africans holding their own 'Judgement of Paris' tomorrow (26 May 2007...

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... with some of the best that California has to offer. It will be interesting to see if my judgement in Minnesota lines up with a Judgement in California. As with all wine tasting, your mileage may vary...

In a bid to rival the Judgement of Paris tastings, a group of wine tasters called the Grand Jury Européen is to hold a tasting of Napa Valley and Bordeaux wines next week...