So, there was the one with Sandra Oh and that guy that was in that Lady of the Water movie.. Sideways where the best friend goes on a wine tour with his wino buddy... He screws everybody, including Sandra Oh's character. While the wino complains about not drinking Merlot and waxes poetic over pinot noir for the entire film. only to end up drinking a bottle of Merlot out of a Styrofoam cup at a fast food place.. Yeah, that sucked. And there was the one with Russel Crowe who inherited his uncles winery in Italy... well, that's all I can remember about that one.
I just finished watching Bottle Shock on netflix. Bill Paxton.. The whole premise of the movie is the evolution of Napa wines in the seventies to International attention. My favorite part? the two guys competing over the intern in a bar by staging a 'blind tasting' Who can bet that this little Mexican guy can't do a blind taste of three bottles, the varietal and the vintage... Haha! he wins. Fun stuff. There's a quote by Galileo.. 'Wines are sunlight with water added'. Anyway, the disenchanted British wine enthusiasts takes himself on a tour of Napa looking for wines to bring back to France for a blind tasting.
He goes through Napa dipping into barrels, with a line out the door of his hotel. Overall clad hippies with bottles cradled in their arms like their first born child. I'm not going to tell you how it ends...... but, it's a good one. I mean unless your French. I was halfway through when I popped over to amazon and ordered a copy for my best bud, and myself. The movie is five bucks, eight including shipping. Trust me on this. It's a must buy (I think it's cheap because it's missing the whole naked guy running down the street because he went home with the homely waitress from the barbecue hangout only to have her husband walk in with a shot gun, were there really Oscar nominations for Sideways?).
Anyway this movie is about wine and people's passion and love affair for it. If I didn't already like wine.... well, I would now. I now have to track down a couple of Napa wines which is great. Because my local wine shop has this awesome Australian guy that always has three or four open bottles on the bar.
I have this theory about wine. Why people like it so much. Why it's such a foundation of cultures all over the world. There's the blood of Jesus thing.. I mean something that has existed for thousands of years has to be good. But, for me. It's about your senses. Taste, smell, touch, sight. We can even argue that the sound of wine being poured adds to the experience.
It also enriches memories. I remember the family dinner when my twin and I were eleven. (don't get huffy mommy's my family is Latin it's a cultural thing)My sister was being a brat. Our grandmother poured me a fuller glass than her and suddenly I felt like a grown up. I think the combination of senses that wine brings to your life creates a stronger frame of reference or memory than a photograph. It's also sexy as hell. What's better than candle light and a glass of wine? It's been a plot in way too many movies and novels to not be true.
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