Has anyone seen the film "A Year in Burgundy" yet?

[Richard_Malloy]

@Blair Curtis

And the timing is no fluke either. Vintage 2011 is the focus…a vintage everyone knows will be very tough to sell on the heels of 2009 and 2010. I expect the movie to tell us how great producers (ie. the ones in her portfolio) managed to make great wines in an off vintage like 2011.

Maybe I’m just jaded…

Is there anyway we can insert this meme “2011 is an off vintage” into the world at large? I mean if we keep repeating it here often enough (and also in Chinese), will it come up as the number one ranked Google search?

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[Richard_Malloy]

BTW, how’s the quality of the DVD? Decent transfer, anamorphically enhanced and all that?

Ooh, ooh… “Burgundy 2011 - green meanies??”

[chaad_thomas]

@Doug Ackerman

@Stuart BeauneHead Niemtzow

That Martine Saunier is “senior producer” on this…and her producers featured…does make me wonder what this really is…and who paid to get it done.

I’m with Blair on this having the potential to be one long info-mercial. I’m sure it’s interesting…but…

I wonder if someone “hired” Mr. Kennard to produce this, given the description of his services.

Nothing wrong with a healthy dose of cynicism, but given her age, her portfolio of wines that are highly allocated etc, I don’t think she has much to gain financially from this.

Apparently you’re right Doug, as she just sold business: Martine's Wines, an importer, changes hands - Dr Vino's wine blog Dr Vino's wine blog

[Stuart_BeauneHead_Niemtzow]

It does seem like Martine did some long range planning and pumped her business for potential sale…and then sold it.

Has anyone seen the film "A Year in Burgundy" yet?

[Nick_Ryan]

Impressed; even I couldn’t dredge up this amount of cynicism. But let me try nonetheless… given this is about Burgundy 2011, you’d think this would be a horror movie, not a documentary, with a scene where somebody is getting eaten alive by giant Asian ladybugs pouring out of a destemmer…

[Stuart_BeauneHead_Niemtzow]

Try harder!

[Doug_Ackerman]

Just wondering how you’d value her company and how much she sold it for. With Rayas being made by the next generation, Henri Jayer having passed on, and Madame Lalou Bize Leroy gaining years…still, those are some serious headliners.