| Title | Sour Grapes – True Story, Fake Wine |
| Director | Jerry Rothwell, Reuben Atlas |
| Starring | Laurent Ponsot Jay McInerney Maureen Downey Rajat Parr Rudy Kurniawan (archive footage) Others |
| Synopsis | Documentary about the fine and rare wine auction market centering around a counterfeiter who befriended the rich and powerful and sold millions of dollars of fraudulent wine through the top auction houses. |
| Release | September 16, 2016 (UK) | releasing.dogwoof.com/sourgrapes |
| IMDB | imdb.com/title/tt5728684 |
| About | www.facebook.com/sourgrapesfilm hwww.sourgrapesfilm.com (stale) |
With pockets full of cash, charisma and a preternatural memory for vintages, a very young Rudy Kurniawan earns the reputation of a wine savant, surrounding himself with some of high society’s most fervent wine connoisseurs. Earning $35 million in a single year from the auction of wines from his ‘magic cellar’, he quickly wins the trust of those in elite wine circles. But when Bill Koch, a top US collector, and Laurent Ponsot, a Burgundian wine producer, discover suspicious bottles floating through the markets, a suspenseful investigation begins into one of the most ingenious cons of our time. – https://jerryrothwell.com/2016/01/01/sourgrapes/
As a whole, Burgundy very quickly went from affordable to unobtainable. I guess you can call it the Rudy era – Rajat Parr (22:10)
Reviews
- A True-Crime Documentary About the Con That Shook the World of Wine
- www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/sour-grapes-the-movie
- www.richardhemmingmw.com/blog/film-review-sour-grapes
- www.hudin.com/a-review-of-sour-grapes
Books
The story is also covered in In VIno Duplicitas by Petrer Hellman (2017).
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