The next big wine movie: Mondovino
OK, I am not the first to talk about this film, but I am getting my 2 cents in before the buzz starts. Mondovino is the new documentary film from the award winning director Jonathan Nossiter, who also brought us the acclaimed films Sunday and Resident Alien. It seems that Mr. Nossiter is not only a film maker, but an accomplished sommelier and wine writer.
In Mondovino we are offered a glimpse of the International Wine Community through the eyes of such notables as Michel Rolland of France, the Antinori family of Italy and the Mondavi family of California. The film centers around the changing face of winemaking around the world. The traditionalists vs. the new generation of technically savvy winemakers. Mondovino takes a balanced approach to portraying the various sides of what is quickly becoming a war of ideology that may change the way we look at wine forever.
Modern winemaking has only been around slightly more than 100 years. I am using the discovery of the mechanism of fermentation by Pasteur as the pivotal date. Since then, a great deal of technology has gone into making wine a more consistent process, and one where bacterial spoilage and other faults have become rare. In the last decade or so technology has narrowed the quality gap for wines, and we have seen the spread of technology to wine regions around the world. Technology has the potential of eradicating the variations caused by vintages and even climatic variables. Technology can bring a consistency to wine that was only dreamt of a generation ago.
But is this a desired outcome? Do we want wines from all over the world to taste more or less the same? Do we want to see the end of vintage variation, at the cost of possible mediocre uniformity?
It is these questions that Mondovino helps us to explore, by exposing us to the passionate opinions of those who have the most at stake, the winemakers themselves.
Modovino is ramping up for release, and should be coming to a theatre near you soon. For a schedule and more information about the movie, visit their web site at mondovinofilm.com.
In Mondovino we are offered a glimpse of the International Wine Community through the eyes of such notables as Michel Rolland of France, the Antinori family of Italy and the Mondavi family of California. The film centers around the changing face of winemaking around the world. The traditionalists vs. the new generation of technically savvy winemakers. Mondovino takes a balanced approach to portraying the various sides of what is quickly becoming a war of ideology that may change the way we look at wine forever.
Modern winemaking has only been around slightly more than 100 years. I am using the discovery of the mechanism of fermentation by Pasteur as the pivotal date. Since then, a great deal of technology has gone into making wine a more consistent process, and one where bacterial spoilage and other faults have become rare. In the last decade or so technology has narrowed the quality gap for wines, and we have seen the spread of technology to wine regions around the world. Technology has the potential of eradicating the variations caused by vintages and even climatic variables. Technology can bring a consistency to wine that was only dreamt of a generation ago.
But is this a desired outcome? Do we want wines from all over the world to taste more or less the same? Do we want to see the end of vintage variation, at the cost of possible mediocre uniformity?
It is these questions that Mondovino helps us to explore, by exposing us to the passionate opinions of those who have the most at stake, the winemakers themselves.
Modovino is ramping up for release, and should be coming to a theatre near you soon. For a schedule and more information about the movie, visit their web site at mondovinofilm.com.
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