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Camilla Christensen
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Virkelig god, hyggelig film - især for den vininteresserede 🙂

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Cast & Crew

Randall Miller
As Patron
Randall Miller
Director
Bill Pullman
As Jim Barrett
Bradley Whitford
As Professor Saunders
Miguel Sandoval
As Mr. Garcia
Alan Rickman
As Steven Spurrier

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In the summer of 1976, a small wine shop owner in Paris, Steven Spurrier, decided to host a blind tasting competition between French and American wines. Despite the odds being against him, he wanted to prove that wines from the New World could stand up to those from the Old World. He traveled to California's Napa Valley in search of contestants and stumbled upon Chateau Montelena, a small winery run by Jim Barrett. Barrett's son Bo secretly passed Spurrier a couple of bottles of their Chardonnay for the competition. Due to reductionist techniques in wine making, the chardonnay had turned brown in the bottles, causing Barrett Sr. to call for it to be dumped. But Bo discovered that it was only temporary and managed to recover it just before it was too late! The rest is history as Montelena's Chardonnay won first prize at Spurrier’s Judgment of Paris tasting – shocking both him and his fellow judges! This twist of fate forever changed how people viewed wine around world - French wines were no longer unbeatable!

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Bottle Shock include In Bruges, The Spectacular Now, A Thousand Words, The Intouchables, No Reservations, Burn After Reading.

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Bottle Shock was released in theaters on September 5, 2008.