Wine & Film Pairings

snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net (winemonger) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:

Opus - It could be a contender\

Definitely a Sherry, but Fino or aged?

Taitinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs

Let us be authentic, Amarone!

Beujoulais Villages, light fruity, yet serious enough for real consumption

Wouldn't an Amarone be more correct?

Dana

Surely only vodka, the cheaper the better, would do for Eisenstein's proletarian masterpiece.

It should be rustic and Italian: Salice Salentino, perhaps?

A 1990 Tete de Cuvee Champagne, the choice of many who ushered in the 21st Century.

A Gaja Barbaresco, I'd suggest.

Cold, cheap beer. Stanley Kowalski wouldn't have it any other way.

Krug or Bollinger, served with ennui. ;-)

Monte Xanic Chardonnay.

Herbal tea.

Falesco Vitiano

Hmmm... I don't remember the food served, alas. They'd need a wine to contemplate. Cos D'Estournel, perhaps?

Absinthe with an LSD chaser.

Plenty of (hot) sake.

Given the setting (SF), and the period, a mid-century Inglenook or BV Cabernet.

What wine goes with noodles? Green tea, please. Make it gyokuro.

Chinese rice wine.

Black tea.

Mark Lipton

Mark Lipton wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@purdue.edu:

OK

Lacymra Christi, perhaps?

LOL but right on Dali and Bunuel would undoubtedly approve

LOVE this one! e.

I believe Hannibal suggests a nice chianti with the liver & fava beans? I selected the 1991 vintage to reflect the year the film was released. But i'm open to the Amarone....name one! e.

I think we're both right; the Hunter novel on which the movie is based suggests a "big Amarone", and the movie changes it to a Chianti.

Dana

No, Dana is correct--it was Amarone. The movie version changed it to chianti, probably because the film studio feared that the movie public would have no idea what the word "Amarone" meant.

Late to the game (I was away), enjoyed the comments, just a couple more:

Cain 5 is nice, but made too far from San Simeon. How about a Paso Robles (Justin Justification, perhaps)

One of the great classics, deserves a great classic. 1945 1st-growth Bdx, perhaps? Though come to thing of it its' more a Burgundy type of film.

O'Connor Pinot Noir

Karl Lawrence Cab

Tough, indeed. But with quality showing through a rough exterior. Pick your favorite under-$20 CalCab, I'll go with the '95 or '96 BV Rutherford (the dust is appropriate, too)

Henschke Hill of Grace (often abbreviated HOG)

Maybe Banyuls? Dale

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Whale Rider was filmed on the East Coast of NZ, north of Gisborne, a wine region noted for two varieties - Chardonnay and Gewurztraminer.

However, in the recently competed Air New Zealand Wine Awards, a small Gisborne winery stunned the Marlborough producers by winning the trophy for the champion Sauvignon Blanc.

Amor-Bendall "Limited Edition" Sauvignon Blanc 2004 is a single vineyard wine made in miniscule quantities. Rich, pungent, herbal but with nuances of tropical fruits (passionfruit and pineapple).

To those in the know, this one out-Pallisers Palliser Estate SB.

Should be quite a good match with whale meat too - served raw of course!!!

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