Hollywood gets high on wine

The Judgment of Paris - a famous wine tasting event in 1976 which pitted France against the US and ignited the New World wine phenomenon - is set to become yet more famous, this time as the subject of two forthcoming films.

From Hollywood comes Bottle Shock, the unofficial story of the event, which stars Alan Rickman as the Machiavellian leading man, Stephen Spurrier.

The British-made film, Judgement of Paris, is based on ...