Genres:
Business
Culture & Society
Theatrical Release: 03/23/2005(USA
Release Date: 01/01/2001
Sound: DD2
Run Time:
Flags: Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Velocity Home Entertainment
Filmmaker
Jonathan Nossiter is a serious wine connoisseur as well as a practicing sommelier when he isn't busy behind the camera, and he's combined his two passions in this
documentary on the international wine business.
Mondovino offers a witty but well-informed look at how business concerns and the homogenization of tastes around the world are changing the way wine is being made.
Nossiter's primary focus is on American vintners and their new degree of worldwide acceptance (in part due to the efforts of wildly influential U.S. wine critic
Robert Parker), as well as French wine makers who are struggling to maintain a more traditional approach in the wake of a rapidly shifting business climate, such as
Hubert de Montille and
Yvonne Hegoburu.
Nossiter deals with the personalities of his subjects as much as their status in the wine business, and he frequently introduces us to the pets of his interview subjects.
Mondovino was screened in competition at the
2004 Cannes Film Festival.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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