Bottle Shock

Bottle Shock
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Randall Miller
Produced by	Randall Miller Jody Savin Brenda Lhormer Marc Lhormer J. Todd Harris Marc Toberoff
Written by	Randall Miller Jody Savin Ross Schwartz
Starring	Alan Rickman Chris Pine Bill Pullman Rachael Taylor
Music by	Mark Adler
Cinematography	Michael J. Ozier
Edited by	Randall Miller Dan O'Brien
Distributed by	Freestyle Releasing 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (DVD)
Release date	August 6, 2008
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English French German
Box office	$4,628,553

Bottle Shock is a 2008 American comedy-drama film based on the 1976 wine competition termed the "Judgment of Paris", when California wine defeated French wine in a blind taste test. It stars Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, and Bill Pullman and is directed by Randall Miller, who wrote the screenplay along with Jody Savin and Ross Schwartz. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Sommelier and wine shop owner Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman), a British expatriate living in Paris, is concerned with how to save his business in his daily conversation with Maurice (Dennis Farina), a wine lover from Milwaukee who is Spurrier's regular (sometimes only) customer. He concocts a plan to hold a blind taste-test intended to introduce Parisians to the quality wines coming from elsewhere in the world.

Spurrier travels to the not-yet-famous Napa Valley in search of contestants for his Judgment of Paris taste test, where a chance meeting introduces him to foundering vintner Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman) of Chateau Montelena. Barrett wants no part in the competition, believing it to be a set-up designed by the French to humiliate New World wine producers. Barrett's son, Bo (Chris Pine), secretly passes Spurrier a couple of bottles of the Chateau's chardonnay for the competition.