10 Parts
Part 1 Where's Asterix? The cast of characters in southern France: a Socialist mayor defending the American multinational...
Part 2 Magic Potion Moving north to the hallowed region of Burgundy to explore the sacred French notion of terroir (s...
Part 3 Rome Was Not Built in a Day Napa rules the American wine industry, but who's behind the scenes? This black comedy shows that ...
Part 4 Pax Panoramix The battle to defend nature and local artisanal winemaking extends from the Pyrénnés mountains (Y...
Part 5 The Appian Way An intimate, revealing portrait of Robert Parker, whose reviews dictate the fate of much of the w...
Part 6 Quo Vademus If wine is unique as a mirror of human complexity, and the only product capable of improving over...
Part 7 All Roads Lead to Rome How would a grape respond under psychoanalysis? Jean-Louis Laplanche, world-renowned psychiatrist...
Part 8 When in Rome... The Antinori and Frescobaldi families have dominated the political and economic life of Tuscany f...
Part 9 Et tu Brute... The Tuscan saga continues: betrayal, redemption, and globalization Italian-style. The two familie...
Part 10 I Came, I Saw, I Sold Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina: the New Wine World, but with age-old conflicts. What's at stake for ...
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Running Time: | 555 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | French |
synopsis
In scope, this multi-generation, globe-trotting saga covers not only the entire gamut of wine making, but wine's place in a treacherously globalized and hyper-marketed world. From the billionaire power brokers of Napa Valley, to the aristocratic rivalries of competing Florentine dynasties, to the efforts of three generations of a Burgundian family fighting to preserve their few acres of land, MONDOVINO: THE SERIES brings to life the human drama (and comedy) of wine making. Shot over several years and in five different languages, the series features numerous intimate encounters with the wine world's most iconic and controversial figures, including the übercritic Robert Parker, legendary wine mogul Robert Mondavi, zany art collector Jan Schrem, and the noble proprietor of the mythical Romanée Conti vineyard. From Florence to Burgundy, New York to Argentina, each hour-long episode stands alone as a passionate and hilarious piece of documentary filmmaking.