Released today on DVD is Bottle Shock, starring Alan Rickman as a 1970s French wine aficionado whose travels to California’s burgeoning wine valleys lead him to make a remarkable discovery…
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Bottle Shock (2008)
Wine movie may well pop your cork…
The world of wine is a complicated one. Although many of us stick to what’s on 3-for-2 at the local supermarket, scratch the surface and there’s a whole universe populated by winophiles, who discuss things like vintages, terroir and malactic fermentation. It’s these people who populate Miller’s intriguing Bottle Shock, although the story is bubbly enough that you don’t have to know your Shiraz from your Chardonnay to enjoy it.