Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ray Isle weighs in on how the film affected the overall quality of Pinot Noir and Merlot. Courtesy of Amazon It's been over a ...

“Quaffable, but far from transcendent.” “You don’t understand my plight.” And, of course: “I am not drinking any [expletive] Merlot!” The 2004 film “Sideways” showed us the fundamentals of wine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The Napa Boys," a gross-out Wine Country comedy that made festival audiences walk out, reaches the Bay Area on March 13.

Fifteen years ago, the sleeper hit movie Sideways catapulted the Santa Ynez Valley wine country into international fame. Today, Sideways is a cult classic. To toast the movie’s anniversary and the ...

Merlot was once the fan-favorite red grape and wine. Then came 2004 hit movie Sideways, in which Miles, the pinot-noir-loving main character, trashes the varietal before heading into a bar: “If anyone ...

In 1991, a "60 Minutes" story titled "The French Paradox" suggested that the reason the French can eat their notoriously rich foods with seeming impunity to cardiovascular disease is because they wash ...

"Sideways" seems to be one of those few films that inspires fans to seek out the film's locations. Its use of real wineries and other locations around Santa Barbara, Calif., have prompted visitors to ...

Paul Giamatti’s character Miles Raymond in the movie "Sideways" was as passionately anti-merlot as he was passionately pro-pinot noir. The merlot revulsion flowed from his ex-wife’s love of merlot, ...