Mondovino

Jonathan Nossiter travels from one end of the world to the other to describe the globalisation of wine: from small holdings in Burgundy to the corporations of California, from Sardinia to Argentina. The argument at its centre is clear enough. Do the scores awarded by the critic Robert Parker and the advice given by the consultant Michel Rolland produce a single international taste that repeats itself everywhere? Nossiter sets the ambitions of the large producers, Mondavi above all, against small estates that hold to the character of their ground. It was shot handheld, in conversation, and was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2004.