Gourmets of Wine > Interview: Jonathan Nossiter, Mondovino | sterow

[sterow] What is interesting about Mondovino’s argument is the way that its setting in the wine world challenges some habitual ideas about the relationship between such left-leaning, anti-globalisation politics and the traditional establishment. In Mondovino, it is the traditional elites - wealthy landowners in France, and the plummy-accented Christie’s wine director Michael Broadbent - who emerge as the defenders of local difference and the last line of defence against big commerce.