Last evening I participated in a Twitter tasting of Bordeaux wines. One of the producers in the tasting had acted in a short film and a link to it was tweeted out. I bookmarked the link and returned to it today for a look mostly out of curiosity and was pleasantly surprised with what I found.
Unlike nearly every movie where wine plays a central role this 17 minute short film did not treat wine as a prop or the obsessive vice of the protagonist. In short montages invoked by wines from a single estate over a lifetime a dying old man and his daughter share one last blind tasting. A thoughtful and simple story is told not unlike the grace and harmony of the best wines of the region.
It is well worth your time to have a look and if you don’t understand French there are English subtitles.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/23583653[/vimeo]
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Hi Tim, Thanks a lot for your post with my movie (thanks also to Mike on the Twitter Taste live of last friday ;).
I really appreciate your comments and happy to surprise you a little bit 🙂
I belive truly that the wine tasting could be a memory link with the real moments of life. Emotion is a part of a tasting. People often asks me : What’s your favorite wine ,” … and of course they are surprised to hear that it’s not the most famous wine but just the one which remember me something intense with my father.
Thank you again
Sorry for my english
Best
Luc
Thank you for stopping by Luc. Your film made me think a lot about my memories with wine from touring Napa Valley in 1981 to introducing my daughter to dry rosé in a 7th arrondissement café this past summer. In many, if not in most of these scenes, the wines have not been what created the memories but they certainly evoke those emotions when we taste them again later.
And I think your English is just fine 😉
Santé