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Plot

Plot

Sommelier and wine shop owner Steven Spurrier, a British expatriate living in Paris, concocts a plan to hold a blind taste-test intended to introduce Parisians to the quality wines coming from elsewhere in the world (and save his business in the process). He travels to the not-yet-famous Napa Valley in search of contestants for his Judgment of Paris taste test, where a chance meeting introduces him to floundering vintner Jim Barrett of Chateau Montelena. Barrett wants no part in the competition, believing it is all a set-up designed by the French to humiliate New World wine producers. However Barrett's son, Bo, secretly passes Spurrier a couple of bottles of the Chateau's chardonnay for the competition. The chardonnay, however, 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 with the help of a local bar owner, who had intercepted the bottles on the way to the dump. Bo is then asked to travel to Paris to represent the Napa valley vintners in the wine contest. After tallying the scores from the eight Parisian judges, Spurrier is shocked to find that Montelena has won the chardonnay competition. The report is featured in an article of Time and restaurants all around America are asked continuously for the wine (Chateau Montelena Chardonnay 1973) and forced to admit that they don't have it. This twist of fate and the resultant oenological epiphany forever changes the fortunes of Napa Valley wineries and the global wine industry as a whole, as it is revealed that French wines are in fact not unbeatable, prompting vintners world wide to attempt fine wine production. In the end, the futures of the characters are revealed. Jim Barrett still makes wine at 81 at the time of this film's release, although Bo now runs the Chateau. A bottle of Montelena Chardonnay 1973 and the red wine, Stags Leap, also from California, that had won the same competition were given a case at the Smithsonian Institute. In 2006, thirty years after the first competition Steven Spurrier hosted another contest, this time with full confidence that French wine would win. California won again.

Controversy

Steven Spurrier has questioned the accuracy of the script, stating: "There is hardly a word that is true in the script and many, many pure inventions as far as I am concerned".

While the film depicts Gustavo Brambila as being at Chateau Montelena throughout the events leading up to the Judgment of Paris, his 22 year term at Montelena actually began just after the tasting. While at Chateau Montelena, Brambila worked closely with Mike Grgichho although not depicted in the film, was instrumental in the production of the 1973 Montelena Chardonnay that won in Paris.

At one point in the movie vintners laugh at Spurrier's desire to pay for tastings. Today Chateau Montelena charges $20 for a tasting (twice the current average of most Napa wineries).

Cast

Alan Rickman as Steven Spurrier

Bill Pullman as Jim Barrett

Chris Pine as Bo Barrett

Rachael Taylor as Sam

Freddy Rodriguez as Gustavo Brambila

Eliza Dushku as Jo the bartender

Dennis Farina as Maurice

Soundtrack

"China Grove" - performed by The Doobie Brothers

"Les Temps Des Cerises" - performed by Scottie Haskell

"Rock Steady" - performed by Bad Company

"Drivin' Wheel" - performed by Foghat

"Un Vel De Vedremo" - performed by Maria Callas and the Philharmonia Orchestera

"Spirit" - performed by The Doobie Brothers

"Stand Back" - performed by The Allman Brothers Band

"Toulouse Street" - performed by The Doobie Brothers

"Jump Into The Fire" - performed by Harry Nilsson

"I Need You" - performed by America

"Listen To The Music" - performed by The Doobie Brothers

"Drinking Wine Spo-De-O-Dee" - performed by Stick McGhee

References

^ a b c Sundance Film festival - 2008 Online Film Guide

^ Lechmere, Adam, Decanter.com (July 27, 2007). Spurrier threatens action against rival Judgement of Paris film

^ "Winemaker Bios: Gustavo Brambila". Taylor Family Vinyards. http://www.taylorfamilyvineyards.com/TFV-%20Winemaker%20Bios.pdf. Retrieved 2009-03-28.

^ Paulsen, Sasha (August 29, 2008). "Grgich celebrates 50 years of making wine - and history - the Napa Valley". Napa Valley Register. http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2008/08/29/wine/doc48b764f6aaf6d173993541.txt.

External links

Bottle Shock at the Internet Movie Database

Bottle Shock at Rotten Tomatoes

Official Website

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Films directed by Randall Miller

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2000s

Till Dad Do Us Part (2001) Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2005) Nobel Son (2007) Bottle Shock (2008)

Categories: 2000s comedy films | 2008 films | American comedy-drama films | English-language films | Independent films | Films set in San Francisco, California

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