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SOUR GRAPES

By Jerry ROTHWELL, Reuben ATLAS

DOGWOOF - as DISTR

Documentary - Completed 2015

Sour Grapes is the story of the world’s greatest wine fraud and how an Indonesian immigrant fooled the international wine world, making millions of dollars from fake vintage Burgundy created in his Los Angeles suburban home.

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Documentary, Thriller
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Director(s)
- Jerry ROTHWELL, Reuben ATLAS
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-E405-0000-Q-0000-0000-X
- Producer(s)
- Al MORROW, Catherine SIMÉON
- Synopsis
- Rudy Kurniawan was, it was rumoured, a wine savant who possessed an expert memory for taste. He was a generous host, offering rare wines from his huge cellar, who in 2006 made 35 million dollars in two wine auctions. Then in 2008 a French wine producer, Laurent Ponsot, realised that wine from his family’s domain was being sold from a year they hadn’t produced any. That day, he says, he took his first flight to New York, and thus began his crusade.
  Set in the super-fast, super-rich world of LA and New York during the finance boom of the early 2000s, and featuring obsessive collectors, outraged wine producers, suspect auction houses, and specialist FBI sleuths, Sour Grapes is an ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ fable for the modern age.