Um banqueiro londrino, Max Skinner, herda a vinícola de seu tio em Provence, na França. Assim que chega à vinícola, ele conhece uma mulher da Califórnia que diz ser sua prima e dona da propriedade.
Baseada em fatos reais, esta comédia mostra o início da indústria do vinho, em Napa Valley, Califórnia, durante os anos 1970, resulta na vitória da vinícola Chateau Montelena na competição internacional de melhor vinho em 1976, em Paris, responsável por colocar a localidade no mapa dos melhores produtores da bebida do mundo.
Uma análise das quatro estações da vida de um casal feliz e seus relacionamentos com a família e amigos. Tom e Gerri são casados e levam uma vida confortável, pacata e feliz. Eles não têm nada que os torne especiais, mas uma vida estável e pacata, solidamente alicerçada num passado de companheirismo construído em cima de um casamento feliz. Talvez por isso, eles acabam sendo uma espécie de “porto de abrigo” para amigos e familiares em situação mais aflitiva.
Magali, proprietária de uma vinícola na França, não tem um relacionamento sério desde a morte do marido. Sua amiga de infância Isabelle decide publicar um anúncio de jornal em busca do par perfeito para ela, e acaba conhecendo o simpático Gérald.
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspector Morrison suspects. If so, why? What secrets this family keeps?
An Iron Curtain defector who has been living for years as a California winegrower learns that Soviet agents are stalking him.
Jaci van Jaarsveld will do everything in her power to stop the advertising company where she works to be taken over by a ruthless businessman known as 'The Jackal'. Her only hope for a big contract to save their company is a wine estate that markets wines to international markets. Easier said than done, especially if the winegrower requires the person to promote his wine to be in an established relationship. In desperation Jaci decided to hire a model pretending to be her fiance. She took the first attractive man walking through their offices send by the modeling agency. Everything seems to be going smooth with the meeting with the winegrower until he invites Jaci and her fiance to visit the winery for the weekend and to compete against their opposition for the contract. And who is the opposition? Jaci's ex-fiance, Mark Rossouw. Just when Jaci think she’s in full control she realized that her ‘fiance’, JP, is the very 'Jackal' who tried to sink their company.
A modern and fast-paced cinematic documentary that aims to trace, understand and demonstrate the historical and unwavering links between the United States, Bordeaux and its wines. An investigation like no other, Eastbound Westbound lets the viewer understand how this Franco-American friendship around Bordeaux wines had its starting point in the 18th century around the greatest connoisseur of fine wines and lover of Bordeaux, the American Thomas Jefferson, US Ambassador to Paris and third President of the United States. To better demonstrate Thomas Jefferson’s legacy, this intimate relationship between the two winegrowing continents is illustrated through interlinked portraits of wine families, from many and varied backgrounds but all sharing a real passion for wine. Leading players in their field, they produce some of the best wines in the world.
By telling the human stories behind the entire value chain that gives life to the Spanish wine with the greatest international projection, ‘Rioja, Land of the Thousand Wines’ portrays a currently blooming wine region underpinned by the talent and the work of the new generations of winemakers that operate side by side with the region’s historic wineries. The film puts the focus on the match between territory and product, wisdom and tradition, and lays a bridge between the origins and the future of Rioja. An immersion into a fascinating world that, through captivating cinematography and careful editing, attempts to find the keys to understanding what Rioja wine is and what makes it so special.
"...a charming depiction of life as I knew it with my grandparents in my own village..." Clara Caleo Green, Cinema Italia UK "The sum of the individual fates and life choices paints a picture, the validity of which extends far beyond this village." Joachim Manzin, Black Box This documentary records the thoughtful and emotional confrontation with time, change, loss and hope related by the members of a small community in the idyllic Ligurian countryside who are dealing with a rapidly changing agricultural industry, transformed by globalisation and technological advances and an increasing number of foreigners buying the empty houses in their village. Forgoing the use of music and voice over, the film lets Aracà's inhabitants tell their own stories and allows the audience to dive into the rich soundscape of the ligurian alpine countryside.
"Below the Belt" is a sensual fable about two friends at a restaurant, who meet a girl they both like.
Three Danish entrepreneurs embark on making cherry wine on the island of Lolland.
A Kellergasse – the cellar lane – is one of the distinguishing cultural and physical features of the winegrowing region Niederösterreich – Lower Austria. There are more than a thousand of them. Until recently, wine was not only stored in the Kellergasse, but pressed and fermented there as well. Today, the Kellergassen have less to do with occupation and more with recreation. A documentary by Georg Riha follows a year in the life of this valuable cultural legacy.
This documentary follows seven wine-making families in the Burgundy region of France, delving into the cultural and creative process of making wine. You'll never look at wine the same way again.
A uniquely Kiwi story capturing the incredible highs and heartbreaking lows of making world-class wine in New Zealand. Stu, Nick, Ollie and Jess take you on a journey of the all-consuming harvest period known as vintage and the passion and hard-graft that goes into every bottle.
Em um jantar peculiar, uma atriz tenta sobreviver em meio a visões de seus pesadelos mais sombrios. Sem a menor noção de espaço-tempo, a atriz desnorteada enfrenta seus medos e vícios, perdida entre o que pode ser de fato real ou fruto de sua imaginação, o jantar toma vida própria.
Pascal Marchand arrived in the mythical land of Burgundy to harvest the grapes at age 21. Now 30 years later, he is a renowned wine artist and innovator. Shot over the catastrophic 2016 season, the film is both a love letter and a cautionary tale.