FlickFilosopher.com (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
In 1976, an English wine merchant name of Steven Spurrier, who ran a shop in Paris, hit upon the idea of setting up a competition between the wines of France and those of Northern California...
Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
The movie was inspired by the real story of how Steven Spurrier, a British wine-seller in France,...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
In France in 1976, California wines were found superior to the best French vintages in a historic blind tasting known as the Judgment of Paris. Bottle Shock , a movie loosely based on those events, opens today, starring Alan Rickman as snotty Englishman Steven Spurrier (the real-life Parisian wine merchant who orchestrated the tasting event as a publicity stunt) and Bill Pullman as the wary, rough-edged...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Opening Wednesday is the movie "Bottle Shock." Shot in Napa and Sonoma counties, the indie production loosely follows the story of wine merchant Steven Spurrier's famous Paris wine tasting, which also was written about in George Taber's book "The Judgment of...
BACCHUS FOR YOU (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
It's official: screwcap is the best closure for the vast majority of wines, both red and white. This is the opinion of Decanter magazine's most senior contributors, from Steven Spurrier to Linda Murphy in California and Huon Hooke in Australia, tastings director Christelle Guibert and restaurant critic Brian St Pierre. In an article entitled '50 Reasons to Love Screwcaps' in the August issue of the...
Wine Camp Blog (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Screwcaps are best: Decanter verdict - decanter.com The normally conservative Decanter has jumped into the closure controversy with both feet. In an upcoming article “ 50 Reasons to Love Screwcaps” some of Decanter’s big guns, including Steven Spurrier have thrown their unequivocal support behind screwcaps. Spurrier says, “the Stelvin is one of the best things to have happened to wine in my lifetime.”...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
These evocative sketches of 1920s life are among a handful salvaged intact from a barn where rats destroyed half a million pounds' worth of art.
Kinkead Ridge Vineyard and Estate Winery Weblog (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
On my recent trip to Paris and London (first REAL vacation in 8 years!) I was eager to visit the Boulevard de la Madeleine, the scene of the famous "Caves de la Madeleine", which was owned by Steven Spurrier, who...
