Mondovino: The Complete Series

This first episode expands on globalization, the battle between the small town of Aniane and the Mondavis of California. The conflict circles around two issues: the saving of a forest and the resistance to a global corporation.

Jonathan Nossiter goes to Burgundy following a harvest and interviews the workers who are grumbling over labor and family issues. Then he travels to Sterling, where chaos tightens the noose around the globalization issue.

A revealing, weird and refreshing look into the wine industry, reflecting on art, the good life and the triumph of a kind of western aesthetic imperialism. Advocates of the western wine industry discuss their opinions of the Napa Valley.

This fourth episode begins with Yvonne Hegoburu. She offers powerful insights into what growing grapes really means. In Sardinia, Battista and Lina Colombu express confusion at the increasing homogenization of wine globally.

Nossiter addresses all the arguments made after "Mondovino" the film and sits through Michael Rolland and Robert Parker’s lectures on their own influence, on pricing, terroir and their indifference to history.

What does an older bottle of wine taste like? Neal Rosenthal regrets the way outstanding critics interfere with the wine tasting culture. This episode studies the new changes in wine making, especially the increasing use of new French oak.