Red Obsession

Bordeaux has been making the most expensive wine in the world for centuries, and the quantity of it is finite. Then a large body of buyers appears in China. Demand explodes, prices climb, and Bordeaux both struggles with the situation and feeds it. David Roach's documentary goes from the vineyards of Bordeaux to the auction rooms of Shanghai. The subject is money more than wine: how a product becomes an investment instrument and how that takes it out of the hands of the people who make it. The telling does not make fun of Chinese buyers; it records a shift in the global economy. Russell Crowe narrates. In seventy-five minutes it explains an economy through one concrete product.