Shared by my dear friend and wine correspondent Jos Vitol, Mondovino is a documentary film by American filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter, who happens to be a sommelier himself with a life long passion for wine.
The documentary exposes the globalization effects that wine critics like Robert Parker and oenologists like Michel Rolland have into the development of a single wine style, independent of terroir, grape varieties, fermentation or character development processes. Small independent wineries, who develop their own particular style of wine, struggle against what appears to be a carefully formulated procedure to fit the taste buds of the masses. It is a 2h00 minute long documentary, but I can assure you that you will enjoy the witty comments by the true personas, who still produce wine for the love of it!
Next time you order a bottle of wine, make sure it’s not a globalized wine…
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What do you mean by globalized wine? Do you mean commercialized?
What do you mean by globalized wine? Do you mean commercialized?
What I mean by globalized wine and what Jonathan Nossiter (the Director for Mondovino) wants to demonstrate is the ongoing uniformization of wine namely, taste, bouquet and colour to meet a specific demand. During the documentary you it is mentioned that there is a certain palate of wine that the great majority of wine drinkers the world consider to be a good/great wine. This palate can be mostly identified with the wines produced in Burgundy and the wineries that produce it. What Mr. Roland is doing is taking that particular palate and replicating it all over the world, despite of location, climate, terroir, grape variety, winery technology…. He is able to make Chateau Pomerol in California or in Chile, hence globalized wine.
What I mean by globalized wine and what Jonathan Nossiter (the Director for Mondovino) wants to demonstrate is the ongoing uniformization of wine namely, taste, bouquet and colour to meet a specific demand. During the documentary you it is mentioned that there is a certain palate of wine that the great majority of wine drinkers the world consider to be a good/great wine. This palate can be mostly identified with the wines produced in Burgundy and the wineries that produce it. What Mr. Roland is doing is taking that particular palate and replicating it all over the world, despite of location, climate, terroir, grape variety, winery technology…. He is able to make Chateau Pomerol in California or in Chile, hence globalized wine.
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