A good drama lurks somewhere in this true story of how the wines of northern California shattered France's oenological hauteur in a blind taste testing in 1976, and Bill Pullman earns moments of interest as a man who threw his conventional life overboard for a shot at winemaking. But director and co-writer Randall Miller is flatfooted and plodding where he should be swift and sparkling.
Bottle Shock
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