Gourmets of Wine > More than just wine: Mondovino, Jonathan Nossiter and criticism

[More than just wine] The cinema version of Mondovino uses this procedure quite efficiently by beginning, if I remember rightly, with the owner of the French winery called Mas de Daumas Gassac (Aimé Guibert) declaring to the camera that "wine is dead !" The point of view resumed in this absurd remark, aimed to shock the spectator and further developed as a thesis in the film, is, broadly, that large companies, rich people, and a small number of critics have colluded to homogenise the taste of wine on offer and crush the small producers and debase the "true" taste of wine. This, in my humble opinion, is simply not true, despite all the criticism that can be levelled (and I have often been outspoken in this direction myself) againt the US wine critic Robert Parker and what surrounds his ways of operating and tasting.

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[Lolas Blog] Mondovino Movie Streaming: infantile tastes (“easy to drink wines”) and who favor oak to “terroir”(the earthy tastes in many French wines) are changing the procedure wines are made forever. It seems the petite wineries are being bought out by the expansive corporations, synthetic methods are obsolete, 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 sizable California wines so the Europeans are emulating that model.)

[Crowned Heads] “Mondopuro”: I’m also a fan of documentary films, and one of my favorites is entitled, “Mondovino.” Essentially, it’s a film about the globalization of wine and the juxtaposition of old-school-traditionalist wine making versus the new-school-wine-consultant-micro-oxygenate regime. I’ve seen this film maybe 3 or 4 times and it is this film that inspired me to draw the ”˜cigars are like people’ comparisons.

[EuropeUpClose] “Mondovino”: Insights into the French and Italian Wine Industries ...: Though the scenery and global scope of the film are impressive, the real richness of this documentary lies in the interviews with long-time wine-making families, such as the De Montilles, the Mondavis, the Antinori and the Frescobaldi. 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.

[Damons Blog] Stream Mondovino Online « Damons Blog: infantile tastes (“easy to drink wines”) and who favor oak to “terroir”(the earthy tastes in many French wines) are changing the plan wines are made forever. It seems the minute wineries are being bought out by the spacious corporations, synthetic methods are old, 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 large California wines so the Europeans are emulating that model.)

[Wine Library TV] Tasting with Tim and Carrisa Mondavi from Continuum Part 2 ...: There was one winery tour I went on here in Texas that just got under my skin because the lady giving the tour seemed like she just memorized cue cards about the winery and how the wines should taste. That and she did whole how to taste red wines and white wines bit which involves clucking and doing all kind of crazy nonsense when all you have to do is swirl it all around your mouth.

[Untitled] Watch Mondovino Movie Online Free Online | Watch Free Movies ...: This movie features interviews with leading wine makers all around the world, from Africa to South America to Europe to the United States. This starts out as a quest to find the perfect wine, but as the crew try to find this formula, they realize that this is simply impossible.

[sterow] Interview: Jonathan Nossiter, Mondovino | sterow: When I suggest this was because his American subjects were less astute in realising how others in the world would perceive them than the French interviewees, Nossiter agrees in part. “When a French person speaks to me”¦ or an Australian, or a German, or a Brazilian, they sense that, you know, they’re small in the world”¦ I think that the violence of the reaction against the film in the US was precisely that it was disturbing for them to see an American filmmaker who took American voices and placed them in a global context.

[Kinkead Ridge Vineyard and an Estate Winery Weblog] Kinkead Ridge Vineyard and an Estate Winery Weblog: Shocking ...: Vines), told potential winery owners: “The most important thing a winery makes is money. You should look at your skill-set first, because growing grapes is very different from making wine, and marketing either grapes or wine requires another set of skills.

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