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[EuropeUpClose] “Mondovino”: Insights into the French and Italian Wine Industries ...: From the Bordelaise widow who admittedly pours the love she once had for her husband into the vines that produce her excellent wines to the elderly Provençal gentleman who refused to sell part of his vineyard to the Mondavis for a tidy sum, Nossiter introduces us to people who truly live for their wine. For them, it’s about something much deeper than sales or ratings.

[DVD Talk DVD Reviews] Mondovino: The Complete Series : DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video: This documentary on globalization in the wine business and its effect on viticulture won multiple prizes and was one of only four documentaries to have ever been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. This four-disc set comprises a massively-detailed broadening of the feature that provides a more inclusive, richly-illustrated status report on the global wine trade.

[Dr Vino's wine blog] Liquid Memory by Jonathan Nossiter - reviews | Dr Vino's wine blog: I completely loved Kermit Lynch’s book and Jonathan Nossiter’s ,Mondovino. I am not a winemaker but I feel I have the right to enjoy a good story and a great glass of wine.

[Reign of Terroir] Mondovino's Jonathan Nossiter, part 1: On Film, Rio, and ...: “[A]nyone with half a chimp’s brain can see through Nossiter’s transparency easier than a J.J.Prum riesling”¦it is Nossiter and his ilk(call them the scary wine gestapo)chanting the same stupid hymn that demand wines be produced in only one narrow style”¦.”

[Grapescape's Blog] Mondovino: Not too much presented in the film was news to anyone that has an interest in wine.  Fundamentally, I must admit that I sympathize with what the film was trying to say.  I prefer “Old World” wine.  That is to say, I prefer unique wine that speaks to where it is from as opposed to wine that is heavily manipulated in the vineyard to please a generic palate.  I think wine is regional and specific and one should be able to taste that.  However, having worked in the wine production business, although most briefly, I have a cursory understanding of the business of wine and the push and pull between wine as a piece of art in a bottle and as wine commodity that must be sold to continue production.  There are many reasons why and how vineyards are planted many of which speak unrelated to what type of wine would, could and should be produced.  The wine industry in Virginia, for example, relies as much on the tourism aspect of the business as it does the quality of its wine.  There is often much work done on the juice in the winery to make an acceptable wine in the bottle and it would not be outrageous to question if it makes any sense to make wine in Virginia at all given expenses and quality.

[kinsley8913231] Stream Mondovino Online: infantile tastes (”easy to drink wines”) and who favor oak to “terroir”(the earthy tastes in many French wines) are changing the device wines are made forever. It seems the limited wineries are being bought out by the expansive corporations, synthetic methods are extinct, everyone is creating a McDonalds Bic Mac wine that is predictable, doesn’t need ageing, and caters to wine critic Robert Parker’s personal tastes and biases (he loves the immense California wines so the Europeans are emulating that model.)

[The Documentary Blog] The Documentary Blog » Blood Into Wine Trailer: Tool Frontman ...: Apparently Keenan started his own winery in the Verde Valley in Arizona, an area not particularly conducive to such things, with the help of wine guru Eric Glomski. Blood Into Wine follows their attempts to break into the industry and bring credibility to the region.

[Reign of Terroir] Jonathan Nossiter pt. 3, Wine, Power, Portugal: That’s why I felt it was mad that in the US after Mondovino I was labeled as a kind of fanatic. The point about wine, it seems to me, is that the element of subjectivity is so huge, it’s so determining, that when we think that we’re certain, we’re denying what wine is, which is why mathematical scores are an abomination.

[Kimoras Blog] Free Download Of Mondovino: The ultimate film about wine and wine culture, Mondovino offers an unprecedented look into the conflicts, conspiracies and alliances of the wine trade. Filmed by award-winning director Jonathan Nossiter, Mondovino has sparked .

[Wine Blog Reviews] Liquid Memory by Jonathan Nossiter - reviews: A great line line from the review summarizes Nossiter’s regrettable tendency to paint his villains with a partisan brush: “The wine world is certainly no Eden, but at least among the grape nuts I know, there seems to be a tacit understanding that politics should end at the rim of the glass””that arguments over wine are spirited enough without injecting politics into the discussion.”

[The Pour] False Demons - The Pour Blog - NYTimes.com: True, Nossiter probably does mourn “the larger loss of local cultures”, i.e., wine grown from land and made by a person of that very land, all with originality and uniqueness by the very nature of their locale and person-land relationship. Nossiter is worried about losing this “local culture” because of the inherent fundamentals of globalizing economies, e.g., the biodynamic Arbois winemaker saying “I want to sell more of my wine to those rich Americans (or Chinese or Japanese or”¦), and if I can sell more then I will expand to make more money, and if I expand I will have more wine to sell, and if I have more wine to sell I will need to “appeal” to more palates”, and you can see where this slippery-slope is going”¦That is what Nossiter fears and that way of thinking is rife in the wine industry.

[Reign of Terroir] A Decade Of Wine Industry Highlights | Reign of Terroir: 2004 - the wine blog Wine Terroirs founded 2004 - the wine blog Vinography founded. April-May 2004 - The great Pavie debate between Parker and Robinson on the 2003 vintage 2005 - Sideways released influencing Pinot Noir & Merlot sales disproportionately!

[VinoSolex] Avoiding Robert Parker's flamboyant prose | VinoSolex: The best known of all, of course, is the omnipotent Robert Parker with his infamously enthusiastic and baroque language which Jonathan Nossiter, the maker of Mondovino, takes such glee in quoting in his recent book Liquid Memory. A Bordeaux is an “explosive, hedonistic, seductive, sexy fruit bomb…

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