…aka Sideways II… aka “the Fahrenheit 9/11 of wine“… will evidently soon be at a theatre near you. As a great cinema critic once said: “Include me out.”
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What nonsense. Seriously, the guy is maybe 15 years behind the times. The real trend to watch is the proliferation, here and abroad, of ultra-traditionalist artisinal wines by small producers and a network of importers, shops, and customers that support them. (Moore Brothers, for example, which is opening a shop in NYC.)
There’s more great, terroir-driven wine being made now than ever before. IIRC Matt Kramer has written that very thing.
Roger:
This is just a smokescreen for not wanting any competition. There is room for all kinds of wine production.There are producers of mass production, less prestigous wines, there are the smaller more elite wines. What the French want is a monopoly. For the crowd that are not experts and want something more then boxed wine and something less then $75 to $500 bottles there is a market. For every big winery there are more then enough boutique vintners. Parker is not perfect and of course his individual tastes may be too influential but I think he is overall a neutral judge.The more competition will eventually produce better quality on the whole. It will stop people from resting on their laurels and the more countries that get involved the better the overall supply will be. There will always be a market for French wines, they just won’t have the market to themselves.
There is so much French wine available that in Houston we can purchase a good bottle for as little as $3.00. A friend and I no longer think we are violating the popular ban on French products. On the contrary, we are simply taking advantage of their dire straits. One should never hesitate to kick our French ìalliesî when they are down.
Anyone else enjoying the rich, plummy irony of left wing icon Michael Moore establishing that there’s a global market for anti-capitalist, anti-American, anti-globalization movies? And that others are rushing in to capitalize on this lucrative market segment, by making their own anti-capitalist movies?
Why, you could do a Harvard B-School case study out of this.
The corner that the left is painting itself into gets smaller and smaller by the day.
Really Roger? I mean, I’ve read stuff about this film and the guy sounds like such a nut and such an uber-snob, but the film still sounds like it could be interesting. And calling it “Sideways II” to me sounds like a high compliment. Do you realize that the pseudo-contrarian consensus that emerged that that film was overrated became such a consensus that the film in effect became underrated? Kooky huh.
I’m sorry, but I think there is some misunderstanding in the case.
Right, you can find a lot of bad french wine, but wrong, Robert Parker is not a neutral judge. One palate can not rule the way wine is produced all over the world.
Some people actually like light wines, others like a slight bitterness at the end, some others want to feel the tanins scratching their tongue like the harshness of country life…There are even some people who like these very light bodied Burgundy wines, which taste you could find unsatisfying, but which leave in your palate, your soul and your heart a cristalline feeling lasting for hours, like an enlightment…I could express lots of other ways of liking wine, which are being each time satisfied by a particular kind of grape, soil, way of doing it.
Moreover, I think the left/right question is irrelevant. Robert Parker is not a rightist, and I’m not sure lots of Burgundy producers vote for the left, on the contrary. Regarding Jonathan Nossiter and the film, you certainly can feel that he is more on Michael Moore side, but, he gives much more room to the people he interviews than the author of Farenheit 9/11, and everything the people say, even the worst, come from their own mouth.
Last thing, I think competition is not the true essence of wine. We have the chance to live in an open world, and discovering the variety of the planet’s pleasures is much better for the soul.
Have a nice glass!