Review of Bottle Shock (2008) by Adam P — 18 Feb 2009

First of all I din;t see danny Devito at any point in the movie but still it is actually a very good movie based on true events. a true story that actually is very interesting how these people actually did it. it really falls under the category of sheer luck!! and just by a hair they actually made it!!

Bottle Shock" explores the birth of California's Napa wine industry, and their triumph over the French at the 1976 Paris Tastings.

In 1976, Steven Spurrier, a sommelier in Paris, comes to the Napa Valley to take the best he can find to Paris for a blind taste test against French wine. He meets Jim Barrett, whose Chateau Montelena is mortgaged to the hilt as Jim perfects his chardonnay. There's strain in Jim's relations with his hippie son Bo and his foreman Gustavo, a Mexican farmworker's son secretly making his own wine. Plus, there's Sam, a UC Davis graduate student and free spirit, mutually attracted to both Gustavo and Bo. As Spurrier organizes the "Judgment of Paris," Jim doesn't want to participate while Bo knows it's their only chance. Barrett's chardonnay has buttery notes and a Smithsonian finish.