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As much as I know about movies, that’s about the opposite of how much I know about wine. In fact, I’m probably less informed than the waiter in
from Going the Distance](Going the Distance (2010) - Movie | Moviefone). I’d love to be a connoisseur, though, and I wonder if the key for someone like me to learn the ways of the grape are to do so through film. I don’t mean like how I first heard of Pinot Noir thanks to Sideways](Sideways (2004) - Movie | Moviefone) or that a 95-cent Idaho bubbly is likely a bad choice via The Muppet Movie](The Muppet Movie (1979) - Movie | Moviefone). Or how I’ve bought certain bottles just because they have a filmmaker’s name on them (I had some sparkling Sofia Coppola this past weekend, in fact). I mean something more specific, like [the list Focus Features had compiled](http://filminfocus.com/article/vino_with_that_film___the_kids_are_all_right_inspi res_a_cinema) for its own titles back in June as a promotion for *The Kids Are All Right, *or how our own Erik Davis found pairings on [yellow tail]'s new ReserveYourNight.com movie/wine-pairing site for recent blockbusters like The Expendables and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
For now the best I can do is pair a generic white wine with *Finding Nemo *because I hear white goes with fish. And because red goes with meat, I think of it as something to go with a manly movie, particularly a boxing film like *Raging Bull *(for the steak scene, you know?). Or maybe white is lighter, so it goes with a lighter sort of movie, like a romantic comedy, while a deep red goes with a dark drama or thriller? Other than that, I have occasionally thought to drink an Argentine Malbec while watching Argentine films, just as I’d likely pair a French wine with a French film, etc. But it impresses me to no end that someone can come up with an exact brand and year to go with *Ratatouille *(the Pixar film, not the dish) let alone the documentary American Movie](American Movie (1999) - Movie | Moviefone).Continue reading Do You Pair Wine with Movies?