The Grapes of Death
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
I watched a very funny movie last night called “The Grapes of Death”. The film is set in the South of France where winemakers experiment by spraying their vines with a new cutting-edge pesticide. Unfortunately, when the grapes are used in the next vintage anyone who drinks the wine is turned into a flesh chomping maniac!!
This movie made me laugh as I felt a connection with these poor French wine drinking zombies. As a wine merchant, I have to taste hundreds of wines a year and quite often you come across a wine that is so bad you start to act like the un-dead. You begin to moan and make gasping sounds, your jaw becomes loose, you talk in gibberish, you lean forward and limp about swinging your arms in a crazy manner.
You’ll have no problem spotting me at wine tastings…
Matt