From The Archives: Bottle Shock’s Randall Miller and Jody Savin0

by Ryan Stewart

“Making wine… it just went from obscurity to sexy.”
– Jody Savin

It’s commonly referred to as the “Judgment of Paris,” a blind wine tasting staged thirty-two years ago that pitted a number of French reds and whites against some upstart competitors from California’s Napa Valley. The organizer of the event, a British wineshop proprietor named Steven Spurrier, made no secret of his belief in the superiority of the French labels and was shocked (as was the whole wine world) when the results came back and Napa had bested all competitors.

Bottle Shock tells the story of that crucial turning point in Napa’s history, not only from Spurrier’s point of view but also from that of the Napa vintners who reluctantly entered the tasting, despite their suspicion that they were being set up — on America’s bicentennial, no less — to fail. SuicideGirls sat down with Randall Miller and Jody Savin, the husband and wife team of indie filmmakers who felt that this story needed to be told.

Read our exclusive interview with Randall Miller and Jody Savin on SuicideGirls.com.