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Sour Grapes (15)

+ wine tasting with St Austell (sold out)

Dir. Reuben Atlas and Jerry Rothwell, UK, 85 mins, 2016.

Official Selection – Hot Docs

Rudy Kurniawan was, it was rumoured, a wine savant, had an expert memory for taste, a generous host, offering rare wines from his huge cellar, who in 2006 made 35 million dollars in two wine auctions from the sale of his wine. Then in 2008 a French wine producer, Laurent Ponsot, realised that wine from his family’s domain was being sold from a year they hadn’t produced it. That day, he says, he took the first plane to New York, and thus begun his crusade.

Set in the super-fast, super-rich world of LA and New York during the finance boom of the early 2000s, and featuring the obsessive collectors, outraged wine producers, suspect auction houses, and specialist FBI sleuths, Sour Grapes is an ‘Emperor’s new clothes’ fable for the modern age.

Post-screening wine tasting session with St Austell Wine Developer

Please note that the wine tasting session has now sold out. Please contact our box office to add your name to the waiting list.

‘A real-life comic mystery fit for Hercule Poirot’
VARIETY

‘Hilarious, fascinating and undeniably entertaining’
NOW TORONTO

‘Endlessly fun and informative’
DIGITAL JOURNAL

Showing Times:

Thu 10 Nov: 7.30pm

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix