{"id":813,"date":"2008-08-07T02:13:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T09:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/08\/the-day-california-kicked-cotes-du-rhones-rear\/"},"modified":"2008-08-07T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T21:17:25","slug":"the-day-california-kicked-cotes-du-rhones-rear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/07\/the-day-california-kicked-cotes-du-rhones-rear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day California Kicked C\u00f4tes du Rh\u00f4ne’s Rear"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Movie ‘Bottle Shock’ recounts the historic 1976 Paris wine-tasting contest<\/h1>\n

\"Screening\"<\/p>\n

Robert Durell \/ Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n


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A film based on the historic event that put California wine on the map — starring Alan Rickman and Bill Pullman — opens in Southern California.<\/p>\n

By S. Irene Virbila, Times Restaurant Critic
\nAugust 6, 2008<\/p>\n

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“Bottle Shock,” a new independent film based, very loosely, on the famous 1976 blind tasting in Paris in which two California wines came out on top, much to the chagrin of the expert — and very French — wine tasters, opens today at theaters across the Southland.<\/p>\n

From the husband-wife filmmaking team of Randall Miller and Jody Savin (he’s directing; they’re co-writers and producers),\u00a0the film<\/a>\u00a0stars Alan Rickman (Professor Severus Snape in the “Harry Potter” films) as British-born, Paris-based wine merchant Steven Spurrier, who organized the tasting; Bill Pullman (“Independence Day,” “Sleepless in Seattle”) as Jim Barrett, the beleaguered owner of\u00a0Chateau Montelena<\/a>(which won for its 1973 Alexander Valley Chardonnay); and Chris Pine (“Carriers,” “Just My Luck”) as Jim’s long-haired son Bo Barrett.<\/p>\n

Filmed in the Napa and Sonoma valleys, “Bottle Shock” takes a romantic view of winemaking and the significance of that long-ago tasting, embellishing and heightening the drama for the screen.<\/p>\n

Four writers took a stab at the screenplay, which in places reads like Wine 101 with the Spurrier character pompously opining that “great wine is great art. I am a shepherd . . . .” Hokey violin music playing in the background doesn’t help.<\/p>\n

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