Gourmets of Wine > Nancy on Wine: Review of the movie Mondovino

[Nancy on Wine] I like how by the end of the movie, you really get how he ends up focusing on the winery dogs, because maybe he too is getting tired of hearing what everyone thinks of everything. This really resonates with me because after I visit like 30 estate, I start also focusing heavily on the winery dogs and stop listening as much to winemakers and estate owners.

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[anxiousmind] (7) WINE'S CONQUEST: Upon arriving at the winery, Parker is said to have been attacked by Hebrard’s dog while the frenchman did nothing but watch. When Parker asked for a bandage to stop the bleeding from his leg, Hebrard is said to have given him a copy of .

[The Pour] Wines With a Difference - The Pour Blog - NYTimes.com: Though Nossiter’s film (Mondovino) had important virtues in its call for appreciation of wines of distinct terroir and its cautions regarding globalization, the film’s most prominent goof was its failure to recognize the peasant-born technique of microbullage which saved Madiran from globalization and preserved the tannat tradition there in the wake of the wave of post WWII modernization, the stainless steel/inert gas/sterile filtration winemaking formula which gave rise to beautiful new styles like off-dry rieslings in Germany but also the disastrous French red wine stylistic crisis that its winemakers are only now beginning to comprehend and deal with.

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