Bottle Shock

"I've got so much I haven't done yet. I've been a master of the snooze button in my life." -Hugh Grant [Daily Express UK] "When Bottle Shock came along I thought I was terrible for the movie but I really like the agriculture, how you...

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Actor BILL PULLMAN was an odd choice to play a wine expert in 2008 sleeper hit BOTTLE SHOCK - because a theatre accident cost him his sense of smell. The Independence Day star admits he doesn't have a nose for good wine - because he can't...

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...USA .... MOVIE WINE BUFF PULLMAN HAS NO SENSE OF SMELL Actor BILL PULLMAN was an odd choice to play a wine expert in 2008 sleeper hit BOTTLE SHOCK - because a theatre accident cost him his sense of smell. The Independence Day star...

In this article: Bill Pullman, BlogTalkRadio.com, Independence Day, and New York City, USA

...chicken instead. Chantilly, Va. : I loved the wine article, and wanted to turn people towards a GREAT wine movie I saw last night called Bottle Shock. Taking place in 1976, it's the true story of a French wine store owner (played by Alan...

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...versus old in an organic comedy about who deserves viticulture's crown. Flavour saviours … Rachael Taylor and Freddy Rodriguez. BOTTLE SHOCK is a genial, sun-kissed wine comedy set in the Napa Valley of California in the 1970s. It's not...

In this article: Steven Spurrier, Chateau Montelena, Napa, Paris, California, and Alan Rickman

...Away and Sideways above, I didn't mean to imply that this movie is anywhere nearly as good as those. Its story arcs are far more predictable, its humor broader, and since the eventual victory of the California wines is a foregone...

In this article: Steven Spurrier, Alan Rickman, Mondovino, Slate, and Breaking Away

WINERY: Bottle Shock was shown recently at Chateau Montelena Winery in Napa Valley. MEDIA DISH Movie 'Bottle Shock' recounts the historic 1976 Paris wine-tasting contest WINERY: Bottle Shock was shown recently at Chateau Montelena...

In this article: Alan Rickman, Paris, Transformers, Napa Valley, Napa, Los Angeles Times, and California

...portrays Steven Spurrier, the British wine dealer who organized a famous blind wine tasting near Paris in 1976, in Randall Miller's "Bottle Shock. " Plaid Suits, Prize Grapes and the Rise of Napa "Bottle Shock," an easygoing little movie,...

In this article: Steven Spurrier and Alan Rickman

Perhaps "Bottle Shock" should have been called "The Grapes of Froth" because it tells such a happy story: How the vintners of Napa Valley won the blind tasting known as the "Judgment of Paris" in 1976 and put their little piece of...

In this article: Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Steven Spurrier, Napa, Paris, and California

...STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING 'Bottle Shock' takes a famous case of wine and lets it breathe If movies were wine, "Bottle Shock" would be a pleasant varietal you'd find on the half-price shelf. Nothing fancy but tasty...

In this article: Steven Spurrier, Jules and Jim, Bill Pullman, Rachael Taylor, Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, and Dennis Farina