Somm III

The documentary sets two tastings side by side. In Paris three old names of the wine world, Fred Dame, Steven Spurrier and Jancis Robinson, open and taste the rarest bottles of their careers. In New York, Dustin Wilson gathers the best blind tasters of the day at a secret table; the question is whether pinot noir from elsewhere in the world can stand against the finest of Burgundy. The film treats wine not as a display of expertise but as a matter of palate memory and of authority. The results of the two tastings cross at the end. Jason Wise’s eighty minute American documentary was completed in 2018 and is the third film in the series of that name.