Mondovino: The Series

2006 All 1 Season

Mondovino the Series explores in depth both the family sagas hinted at in the feature film as well as the identity and meaning of wine in different regions.

Directed by: Jonathan Nossiter

Genre: Documentary Series · Documentary Series

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10 Episodes

1 - Where's Astérix? 53 min

The cast of characters in southern France: a Socialist mayor defending the American multinational company Mondavi; a Communist Mayor defending conservative French (wine) values; Aimé Guibert, father of the Languedoc wine revolution; the Vaillé brothers, Guibert's nouveau riche neighbors and competitors; and Gérard Depardieu.

2 - Magic Potion 58 min

Moving north to the hallowed region of Burgundy to explore the sacred French notion of terroir (sense of place), we meet the loving but profoundly fractured Montille family.

3 - Rome Was Not Built in a Day 58 min

Moving north to the hallowed region of Burgundy to explore the sacred French notion of terroir (sense of place), we meet the loving but profoundly fractured Montille family.

4 - Pax Panoramix 58 min

The battle to defend nature and local artisanal winemaking extends from the Pyrénnés mountains (Yvonne Hégoburu fights to create organic wine in her late husband's memory) to the asphalt of Brooklyn (quintessential New Yorker Neal Rosenthal) to Burgundy (the unlikely rebel Aubert de Villaine of Romanée Conti, the guardian of the wine world's most sacred and aristocratic treasure) to Bordeaux (Pierre Siri, The Mouse that Roared).

5 - The Appian Way 54 min

An intimate, revealing portrait of Robert Parker, whose reviews dictate the fate of much of the wine world, from California to London to Chile

6 - Quo Vademus 56 min

If wine is unique as a mirror of human complexity, and the only product capable of improving over seventy to eighty years, then how is enduring youth achieved? California and Paris compete over the fountain of youth.

7 - All Roads Lead to Rome 51 min

How would a grape respond under psychoanalysis? Jean-Louis Laplanche, world-renowned psychiatrist and Freud translator, is the owner of the Chateau de Pommard in Burgundy. Yet his peculiarity does not compare with that of the husband-and-wife psychiatric team who bought and sold the Napa winery aptly named Folie à deux.

8 - When in Rome... 53 min

The Antinori and Frescobaldi families have dominated the political and economic life of Tuscany for a thousand years. The tensions and conflicts underlying the two ruling families resemble a nineteenth-century opera (or a Mafia turf war).

9 - Et tu Brute... 56 min

The Tuscan saga continues: betrayal, redemption, and globalization, Italian-style. The two families fight it out for the hand of America's Mondavi family. But what does it mean for U.S.-European relations when the dust finally settles?

10 - I Came, I Saw, I Sold 51 min

Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina: the New Wine World, but with age-old conflicts. Whats at stake for indigenous people and foreign investors? How do the European-American conflicts play out in South America?