Bottle Shock Page #4

part of our... visit.

Come on.

[Exhales, Laughs]

Check it out.

I'm gonna be mobile again.

- Yeah? You need help?

- Okay. Here?

Hop on.

You said that to him?

Yeah.

Sh*t.

What are you gonna do now?

I'm not sure.

Can I try it?

Your wine?

It, uh...

made Seor Garcia cry.

Then again, he was listening

to Maria Callas at the time.

- [Laughs]

- [Chuckles]

I got some Portuguese sardines...

and crackers inside.

You think this goes well with fish?

Yeah. Yeah, l- I think so.

Good.

Hey, Sam.

- Yeah.

- I don't think your car is safe to drive.

- Why not?

- The, uh-The axle's bent.

- That's sweet.

- What?

You're worried about me.

To Gustavo Brambila...

renegade...

who worships

the sanctity of the vine.

And can't afford a full tank of gas.

[Exhales Softly]

[Sighs]

[Laughs]

Sam!

- Hey.

- Oh, man.

We gotta get out

to the vineyard. Come on.

Uh, yeah.

Just a second.

[Exhales]

- [Engine Starts]

- Bo!

Bo!

Come on, Bo!

Hey. Just a little lighter

on that part, okay?

- Where's Bo?

- I don't know.

He took the truck.

He didn't come by to pick you up?

Yeah, but I wasn't about to dive

in the back while it was driving away.

Well, Sam, this is where wine

is made, the vineyard.

And the vineyard's best fertilizer

is the owner's footsteps.

It's alluvial, sedimentary,

volcanic soil.

- Dry.

- Right.

You want to limit the irrigation

'cause it makes the vines struggle...

intensifies the flavor.

A comfortable grape, a well-watered,

well-fertilized grape...

grows into a lazy ingredient

of a lousy wine.

So, from hardship

comes enlightenment.

For a grape.

[Spurrier Narrating]

"Wine is sunlight...

held together by water. "

The poetic wisdom of the Italian physicist,

philosopher and stargazer...

Galileo Galilei.

It all begins with the soil...

the vine, the grape.

[Crunching]

The smell of the vineyard.

Like inhaling birth.

It awakens some... ancestral...

some... primordial-

Anyway, some deeply imprinted...

and probably subconscious place...

in my soul.

Everything all right here?

These Californian wines...

are all... so good.

What were you expecting?

Thunderbird?

- What did you do?

- Huh?

- What'd you do?

- The-We needed them, Dad.

Huh?

[Stammers]

- You send them back, all right?

- You know full well we can't send them back.

- Just send them back.

- You wanna fight?

No. No, goddamn it!

I don't wanna fight!

I just want to- to-

[Grunting]

God.

To not fail at this.

To not completely fail.

[Grunts]

Oh, God.

Are you okay?

Yeah. Just-

[Exhales Sharply]

Don't -

Just don't ever pull

a stunt like that again.

I solved the problem.

Oh. I owe her now.

- Think of it as a gift.

- Gift like that costs more than money.

Why? Because you might

actually have to say thank you?

- I don't wanna owe anybody.

- You owe the bank 12 and a half percent.

[Stammers]

Pay her back if you want. Or not.

Whatever. She's not gonna

charge you interest.

I'd rather owe 10 banks

than owe your mother.

Oh, by the way, I fired Gustavo.

What? Wh-Why would you do that?

He's running his own operation now.

What are you talking about?

Ask him.

- [Knocks]

- Knock, knock.

Whoa.

Putting some blood

into it now, are you?

Can I help you?

Could I purchase two bottles

of the '73, please?

It's not ready.

[Mouths Word]

I'll hold onto it.

Does this mean that you've picked

the wines for your tasting?

I'll be making a formal announcement

to the invited wineries and to the press.

I can't spoil

the bubble of surprise now.

Right. Wouldn't wanna

pop any bubbles.

And when will this formal

declaration be taking place?

In due course.

Why don't I like you?

'Cause you think I'm an a**hole.

And I'm not really.

I'm just British,

and, well, you're not.

[Chuckles]

l- It's because...

I think you've designed

this whole tasting thing...

to embarrass the Americans

on their birthday.

- Why would I do that?

- To somehow...

- make yourself more popular among your peers.

- Dad.

No. l-lf there's one thing I know...

it's people.

Well...

good to see you again.

You know, Montelena

could have used the exposure.

What if we'd won?

People might then actually buy our wine.

They'd never let us win.

Who is "they"?

Him. The Brit.

They- the French wine cronies.

They're in the French wine trade.

They're not looking to change that.

It's a mistake, Dad.

## [Woman Singing Aria]

## [Continues]

Man, this is the, uh-

the heaviest glass of wine I've ever had.

- Don't be so melodramatic.

- Hey, I'm serious, dude.

Taste it.

- Did you sleep with her?

- Oh, come on, Bo.

- Admit it. Admit it.

- You of all people.

- How many different girls have you been with-

- This is different.

Taste the wine, please.

Did the Brit like it?

[Chuckles]

He bought two bottles.

That says something.

Ten bucks.

Are you seeing her?

What does-What does that mean?

- You know exactly what that means.

- I don't know.

She liked my wine.

- A lot. You know-

- Uh-huh.

I can't believe you're jealous.

- [Scoffs] Come on. I'm not jealous.

- You're jealous. Yes, you are.

- I'm not.

- Okay. Well, then, she was, um-

Mmm. She was good.

- I've never had a girl say my name like that, right?

- All right.

- Enough.

- She moaned my name-

- Did you actually sleep with her?

- Yeah, I slept with her, dude.

Bullshit. I don't f-

[Both Arguing]

[Bo] Don't lay that rich guy bullshit on me.

I work my ass off.

## [Volume Increases]

- I'm out there 12 hours a day.

- I couldn't even come and play.

- Play? Oh, come on.

- Taste the f***in' wine, please!

## [Continues]

It's good.

Good?

What kind of an opinion is that?

A good one.

If I had been born with your privilege-

[Scoffs, Chuckles]

Excuse me?

I wouldn't have squandered it.

- [Phone Rings]

- [Woman On P.A., Indistinct]

[Chattering]

[Woman On P.A.] The white zone is for

immediate loading and unloading of passengers-

- No parking.

- Excuse me.

Hey.

Bo. Are you going somewhere?

I'm sorry about my dad.

He can be a little, uh, impulsive.

- I could think of other words.

- Uh...

- pigheaded maybe?

- That would be one of them.

I wanted you to have two bottles of

our chardonnay- for the competition.

If you decide to choose them.

Is your father okay with this?

Ye-Yes.

Absolutely.

Right.

Hello, and thank you for flying

with TWA today.

My name is Becky.

How may I help you?

- I will be traveling on Flight

- How many persons traveling?

Just one.

- [Typing]

- And how many suitcases?

Also just one.

Oh. And this one I'll have to carry.

And, uh, these.

- What is in the box, sir?

- The sweet nectar of the Napa Valley.

- All the bottles are properly packed.

- I'm sorry, sir...

but F.A.A. rules only allow you

to bring one bottle of wine in a travel bag.

Beyond that, you have to make

special customs arrangements.

These wines are scheduled

to be served in a competition in Paris.

I can't have them

jostled about in cargo.

I'm so sorry.

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