Daily Dialogue — May 2, 2019

“‘Wine is sunlight, held together by water.’ The poetic wisdom of the Italian physicist, philosopher, and stargazer, Galileo Galilei. It all begins with the soil, the vine, the grape. The smell of the vineyard — like inhaling birth. It awakens some ancestral, some primordial… anyway, some deeply imprinted, and probably subconscious place in my soul.”

— Bottle Shock (2008), screenplay by Jody Savin & Randall Miller and Ross Schwartz, story by Ross Schwartz & Lannette Pabon and Jody Savin & Randall Miller

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Wine. Today’s suggestion by @Jayandcat.

Trivia: The real Jim Barrett, owner of Chateau Montelena, appears in the film as a vineyard owner who pours a wine sample for Alan Rickman. Mike Grgich, the real-life winemaker at Chateau Montelena (and the man who was most responsible for the award-winning 1973 Montelena Chardonnay), appears in several scenes at the chateau, standing next to Bill Pullman as he takes a wine sample from a barrel.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A lyrical ode to wine in voice-over narration from the sonorous voice of the late Alan Rickman.