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Sour Grapes
2016 · Film · documentary · 86 min
Directed by Reuben Atlas, Jerry Rothwell
Controversy erupts when an unassuming young man floods the American wine market with fake vintages valued in the millions, bamboozling the wine world elite, in this humorous and suspenseful tale of an ingenious con on the eve of the 2008 stock market crash.
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clips from the Sour Grapes documentary https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sour+Grapes+kurniawan&ia=videos&iax=videos
There is a pretty good documentary about this guy and the wine auction: Sour Grapes.
I recommend the documentary Sour Grapes
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5728684/
Sour Grapes is a documentary about someone who sold a bunch of counterfeit wine to elites that couldn’t tell the difference, worth a watch.
I wouldn't say they are the norm, but they're certainly expected by any re-seller (auction house, retailer, restaurant) when dealing with the highest echelon of wine (1st Growth Bordeaux, Premier Cru Burgundy, Vintage Champagne) they'll also expect a description of the storage conditions over time.
See the documentary Sour Grapes to understand how this system was undermined and trust evaporated from the industry.
A movie about the wine industry and fraud, Sour Grapes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sour_grapes_2016/
If you want to do long dives anything by Ken Burns, baseball is a classic: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/baseball/
A documentary about Napster directed by not Keanu of Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure, Downloaded: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2033981/
I just watched Sour Grapes[0] on Netflix - an incredible story about wine forgery that has lots of parallels to this story.
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5728684/
Split my time between documentaries that can be downloaded from Netflix, usually of middling quality, and whatever audiobook caught my attention in the days before flight.
Being a bigger guy, unless I get the upgrade I can’t do anything with a keyboard so doing much productive is out of the question.
Recent highlights have been Sour Grapes and the Rotten series on Netflix, and Ray Dalits Principles on Audible.
The Sour Grapes (surprised it isn't mentioned; best wine movie ever!) guy is here! Glad you are out!
It was so amusing you almost got away with it untill you conned one of the Koch brothers!
did a good job of producing fake wines that were both palate pleasing and mimicked elements of the wine being counterfeited.
The "Sour Grapes" documentary was a case study in vintage wine being more psychologically concerned with labels rather than actual delicate details in taste and nuance, as cheap wine was sufficient in quality to please nearly every one of the clients. Even many of the experts and brokers were satisfied with the cheap mixtures.
Can't help but think of the movie "Sour Grapes" that shows "wine connoisseurs" completely fooled by some fraudulent mixes:
https://decider.com/2016/12/06/sour-grapes-on-netflix-wine-scandal/
If you're interested in this, watch the Netflix documentary "Sour Grapes" about wine counterfeiting - millions and millions of dollars per year and most victims just "don't want to know". Sometimes the counterfeiters produce and sell wines for 10s of thousands of dollars - and the buyey later finds the vineyard never even made that kind of wine. William Koch is profiled in the film, he alone spent millions on counterfeit wine and hired a team of former CIA operatives to try and track some of it down. Fascinating stuff.
There is a great documentary on Netflix called sour grapes. It is about wine fraud and how in the end most can't tell if the wine is real or not.
I'm sure some people can tell, but I highly recommend watching sour grapes, there really are some emperor's new clothes moments.
http://www.sourgrapesfilm.com/about/