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Where's Asterix?

This first episode expands on globalization, the battle between the small town of Aniane and the Mondavis of California. The conflict circles around t...

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Magic Potion

Jonathan Nossiter goes to Burgundy following a harvest and interviews the workers who are grumbling over labor and family issues. Then he travels to S...

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Rome Wasn't Built in a Day

A revealing, weird and refreshing look into the wine industry, reflecting on art, the good life and the triumph of a kind of western aesthetic imperia...

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Pax Panoramix

This fourth episode begins with Yvonne Hegoburu. She offers powerful insights into what growing grapes really means. In Sardinia, Battista and Lina Co...

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The Appian Way

Nossiter addresses all the arguments made after "Mondovino" the film and sits through Michael Rolland and Robert Parker’s lectures on their own infl...

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Quo Vademus?

What does an older bottle of wine taste like? Neal Rosenthal regrets the way outstanding critics interfere with the wine tasting culture. This episode...

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All Roads Lead to Rome

Alain Châtelet of the Govt. Bureau on Wine Fraud leads us through the delicate question of consumer protection with respect to phony wines, a crime t...

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Crossing the Rubicon

Nossiter returns to Italy and investigates the locals who have been producing and drinking wine for decades, even centuries. They discuss the terroir ...

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Et tu Brute...

An ugly aspect of modern wine culture is its history. Episode nine follows a story of the Antinoris and the Frescobaldis, both aristocratic families o...

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Veni, vidi, vendidi

In the final episode, Jonathan Nossiter travels to Chile, Brazil and Argentina, meeting new faces and new winemakers. But we are also introduced to th...

0 Mar 17, 2005