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...mort,” declares independent vintner Aimé Guibert early in the documentary Mondovino. Wine is dead...
...avoid the snob image that his favorite beverage often evokes. A slick portrait of oenophiles spouting pretentious adjectives as they decant a product the audience can only enjoy vicariously? No thanks. "That would have been worse than the cheesiest porn film," he says. Luckily, Nossiter, 43, overcame his reluctance. Mondovino, his documentary about globalization's impact on the winemaking business, is a quirky, subversive defense of Terroir: the idea that every wine ought to be a unique expression of the specific combination of sun, soil and human sweat that went into its creation. Nossiter doesn't do Michael Moore-style...
...Mondovino? - a wine documentary sabotaged by jittery camerawork...