Bottle Shock is a 2008 American comedy-drama film based on the 1976 wine competition termed the "Judgment of Paris", when California wine defeated French wine in a blind taste test. It stars Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, and Bill Pullman and is directed by Randall Miller, who wrote the screenplay along with Jody Savin and Ross Schwartz. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Sommelier and wine shop owner Steven Spurrier , a British expatriate living in Paris, is concerned how to save his business in his daily conversation with Maurice, a wine lover from Milwaukee who is Spurrier's... regular customer. He concocts a plan to hold a blind taste-test intended to introduce Parisians to the quality wines coming from elsewhere in the world. Spurrier travels to the not-yet-famous Napa Valley in search of contestants for his Judgment of Paris taste test, where a chance meeting introduces him to floundering vintner Jim Barrett of Chateau Montelena. Barrett wants no part in the competition, believing it to be a set-up designed by the French to humiliate New World wine producers.
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| Release date: | January 18, 2008 |
| Directed by: | Randall Miller |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Producer: | Marc Lhormer, Brenda Lhormer, J. Todd Harris, Jody Savin, Randall Miller, Marc Toberoff |
| Editor: | Randall Miller, Dan O'Brien |
| Music by: | Mark Adler |
| Cinematography: | Mike Ozier |
| Screenplay by: | Jody Savin, Ross Schwartz, Randall Miller |
| Genre: | Comedy |