Wine on screen

No wine at home? Here's a list film recommendations by wine consultant Alok Chandra on your favourite drink. Enjoy!

In this time of lockdown, among other activities, I’ve been catching up on my share of “wine movies” available online.

While I’ve been a subscriber to Amazon Prime Video for some time, I recently listed on Netflix and Hotstar Premium — both platforms have a huge inventory of A/V material.

Googling “wine movies” gives you more than 50 wine-centric titles, probably a bit too much for most — plus any number of sites extolling the virtues of their list of “the X Best Wine Movies”.

Here’s my list of recommended wine movies:

The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969): Anthony Quinn