Plum presents Vintage Bordeaux: a wine documentary on the 2005 Bordeaux harvest season. Vintage Bordeaux captures on film what wine critics like Robert Parker have said “should evolve into one of the great vintages of Bordeaux,” (Wine Advocate). While immersing themselves in the French wine region of Bordeaux, during the harvest season of 2005, the producers of the film captured an inside look at the winemaking process and happened to do so during one of the most spectacular vintages the region has ever witnessed. Speaking with vineyard owners, winemakers, and merchants, viewers receive a candid look at the process that will be talked about for decades to come. People featured in the film include Baronne Nadine de Rothschild & Yann Buchwalter (Chateau Clarke), Thierry Manoncourt (Chateau Figeac), John Kolasa (Chateau Rauzan-Segla & Chateau Canon), Bernard de Laage de Meux (Chateau Palmer), Philippe Blanc (Chateau Beychevelle), Yves Vatelot (Chateau Reignac), Herve Berland (Chateau Mouton Rothschild), Anthony Perrin (Chateau Carbonnieux), Eric Fourault (Bordeaux wine merchant), Countess Nancy de Bournazel (Chateau Malle) and many more.
The film is narrated by the founder of the Nantucket Wine Festival and Tanglewood Wine Festival, Denis Toner. Toner states, “Vintage Bordeaux is a chronicle of the fabled 2005 vintage in Bordeaux. A vintage blessed with perfect conditions for making great wine. All of it captured on film, this is an inside look at a very special vintage.”
The film celebrates the people and natural beauty of the Bordeaux region in the same fashion Plum celebrates the people and place of the dynamic communities it broadcasts in.
This is the third in a series of documentaries featuring wine created by the production duo of David Kuhn and Daniel Honan. Their three other films featured the wine regions of Tuscany, Burgundy, and Napa & Sonoma.