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Tag Archives: Alexander Payne

The Day After Yesterday: SIDEWAYS Turns 10 as Merlot Reasserts its Popularity

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Kenn Fong

by Justin Lowe

When Fox Searchlight Pictures released the Oscar-winning independent film Sideways in 2004, it set the bar for wine movies for years to come. More provocatively perhaps, it took only a couple of brief lines of disparaging dialogue for the film to adversely impact the market for Merlot wines throughout the US. Continue reading →

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The Life of Wine: The Which-and-When of a Drink That Changes Over Time

Posted on November 28, 2014 by garyedf

by Cari Borja

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” —Soren Kierkegaard

Can you remember what kind of wine drinker you were when you first saw Alexander Payne’s iconic 2004 film Sideways , which takes place in Santa Barbara wine country? I do. Continue reading →

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