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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 4201803, member: 1414"] [B]Bottle Shock. 2008[/B]. Somehow missed this one. Stars Bill Pullman, Chris Pine, Alan Richman and Rachael Taylor. Dennis Farina is funny playing basically the same guy he always plays. This tells the story of the famous 1976 judgement of Paris wine tasting. Richman plays Steven Spurrier a Paris based wine merchant (and snob) who sets the competition and travels to California. Pullman is Jim Barrett owner at Chateau Montelena, Pine his surfer/hippy son Bo. Those three are all real. Gustavo Brambila is Bo’s friend and works for Barrett, but in reality only after these events. Also missing from the true story is Mike Grgich, who was the winemaker at Montelena at the time (not Barrett). Evidently "he did not want to be part of it." Despite playing a bit loose with details this was a hoot. It’s well paced, funny and an enjoyable movie. [/QUOTE]