In 1976, Steven Spurrier, a sommelier in Paris, comes to the Napa Valley to take the best he can find to Paris for a blind taste test against French wine. He meets Jim Barrett, whose Chateau Montelena is mortgaged to the hilt as Jim perfects his chardonnay. There's strain in Jim's relations with his hippie son Bo and his foreman Gustavo, a Mexican farmworker's son secretly making his own wine. Plus, there's Sam, a UC Davis graduate student and free spirit, mutually attracted ... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1976, Steven Spurrier, a sommelier in Paris, comes to the Napa Valley to take the best he can find to Paris for a blind taste test against French wine. He meets Jim Barrett, whose Chateau Montelena is mortgaged to the hilt as Jim perfects his chardonnay. There's strain in Jim's relations with his hippie son Bo and his foreman Gustavo, a Mexican farmworker's son secretly making his own wine. Plus, there's Sam, a UC Davis graduate student and free spirit, mutually attracted to both Gustavo and Bo. As Spurrier organizes the "Judgment of Paris," Jim doesn't want to participate while Bo knows it's their only chance. Barrett's chardonnay has buttery notes and a Smithsonian finish.
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| Denver Rocky Mountain NewsRick WarnerUnfortunately, Miller can't decide whether he's doing a relationship movie or one about the intrigue of world-class winemaking. Mingling the two left me with a somewhat sour aftertaste. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBottle Shock is more than the story. It is also about people who love their work, care about it with passion and talk about it with knowledge. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfA dreadful directorial effort, robbing the film of personality, wit, and enthusiasm just to run through endless scenes of uninspired conflict and predetermined resolution. Shock can be an absolute bore when it ignores wine. |
| Dallas Morning NewsManuel MendozaThe characters are vivid, the scenery is lovely, and lines like, 'I detect bacon fat laced with honey lemon,' establish the silly seriousness of wine snobs. |
| Washington PostStephen HunterWhatta movie: booze, unhappy French people, Alan Rickman and really cool pickup trucks. |
| MTVKurt LoderMiller assembled a top-flight cast for his film: Alan Rickman plays Spurrier; Bill Pullman is Jim Barrett; and Dennis Farina portrays a flashy American wine buff named Maurice. These fine actors are shockingly misdirected. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsWine may be sunlight held together by water, as Galileo said, but Bottle Shock is held together only by Alan Rickman. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneBill WardIts heart is so in the right place and its tableau so appealing that it's easy to come away from this sweet, scrappy film with a nice little buzz. |
| UGOKeith UhlichIn light of all its swooping and swishing helicopter shots of the sun-dappled Napa Valley, [it] might as well have been photographed from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. |
| indieWireRob NelsonBottle Shock isn't a ripe grape so much as pure American corn. |
