Word: merlots
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...through the vineyards near Santa Barbara. Paul Giamatti plays the novelist, who is deeply in love with wine and deeply in hatred with the rest of the world. It's a quiet, sad, beautiful story about how ego obstructs work and love. And it contains the best joke about Merlot in cinema history--along with the funniest beating-with-a-motorcycle-helmet scene, as performed by Payne's wife Sandra...
...last glass, the sommelier brings the very wine Giamatti's character, a wine snob, rails against: American Merlot. But it's a 2001 Pahlmeyer, and it's impressive. "It's got so much going on. So much acid, so much tannin, so much fruit--you taste them so distinctly that with age they'll meld into one distinct flavor," Payne says. It's that same blending that Payne does, mixing the effete and the unpretentious, the banal with the surreal, the painstakingly honed with the unretouched, that make his movies so good. At least that sounds smart after four really...
...many other Chilean wineries are partying because their high-stakes bet--a red-wine grape called Carmenere--is paying off. Brought to South America from France in the 1800s, Carmenere was rediscovered in Chile in the 1990s as a delicious compromise between the robust Cabernet Sauvignon and the softer Merlot--and a chance to market a signature Chilean wine. Casa Silva has already made Carmenere its second grape, behind Cabernet; it accounts for a fifth of Casa Silva's growing exports and reaps international awards for labels like its Los Lingues Carmenere...
Baron is but one of a pioneering crop of winemakers who have been stretching their trade across the eastern part of Washington. The state built its wine reputation on Bordeaux-like blends, using Merlot and Cabernet...
...Hitler, his right arm outstretched in the familiar Nazi salute. Alongside him is a bottle bearing a portrait of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, organizer of the mass murder of 6 million European Jews. Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini are there as well, staring out from hundreds of bottles of Merlot, Burgundy, Cabernet Sauvignon and the like - yours for a mere 311. I am aghast. It's not, after all, every day that one is confronted with the opportunity to buy a bottle of wine bearing images of the men who tried to gas his parents. Führerwein...