Bottle Shock


Bottle Shock is a 2008 American comedydrama film based on the 1976 wine competition termed the Judgment of Paris, when California wine defeated French wine in a blind taste test. It stars Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, and Bill Pullman and is directed by Randall Miller, who wrote the screenplay along with Jody Savin and Ross Schwartz. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Spurrier travels to the notyetfamous Napa Valley in search of contestants for his Judgment of Paris taste test, where a chance meeting introduces him to foundering vintner Jim Barrett Bill Pullman of Chateau Montelena. Barrett wants no part in the competition, believing it to be a setup designed by the French to humiliate New World wine producers. Barretts son, Bo Chris Pine, secretly passes Spurrier a couple of bottles of the Chateaus chardonnay for the competition.Due to reductionist techniques in wine making the absencereduction of oxygen during the wine making process, the chardonnay has turned brown in the bottles, causing Barrett Sr. to call for the whole vintage to be carted away for dumping. But Bo discovers the brown color is only temporary and manages to recover the vintage, thanks to the help of local bar owner Joe Eliza Dushku who had intercepted the bottles on the way to the dump. ........

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