Movies with Port?

[Andy Velebil]

What movies have you seen Port, Madeira, or Douro wines in? As in any movie from any time period. It could be a movie about wine, or just a bottle you recognized as being Port, Madeira, or a Douro wine in the background.

[Miguel Simoes]

Madeira! I keep telling the story of how it appears in Gone With the Wind, where this lady in the south offers his guests some from the "the last bottle of my finest Madeira".

That stretch of the movie should be played over and over again in all Madeira lodges.

[John M.]

In "Remains of the Day" I recall the butler (Anthony Hopkins) drops and breaks a 1912 Taylor (at least as I recall--been awhile) on the stairs. Unlike Miguel's movie clip--this tragedy should NEVER be shown too much.

[Allan Engelsted Laurents]

In "Remains of the Day" I recall the butler (Anthony Hopkins) drops and breaks a 1912 Taylor (at least as I recall--been awhile) on the stairs. Unlike Miguel's movie clip--this tragedy should NEVER be shown too much.

Very close John, it was a 1913 Dows

Cheers Allan

[John M.]

In "Remains of the Day" I recall the butler (Anthony Hopkins) drops and breaks a 1912 Taylor (at least as I recall--been awhile) on the stairs. Unlike Miguel's movie clip--this tragedy should NEVER be shown too much.

Very close John, it was a 1913 Dows

Cheers Allan

Thanks--is that better or worse??? Cannot find a Tasting Note here for the 1913 Dows.

[Allan Engelsted Laurents]

In "Remains of the Day" I recall the butler (Anthony Hopkins) drops and breaks a 1912 Taylor (at least as I recall--been awhile) on the stairs. Unlike Miguel's movie clip--this tragedy should NEVER be shown too much.

Very close John, it was a 1913 Dows

Cheers Allan

Thanks--is that better or worse??? Cannot find a Tasting Note here for the 1913 Dows.

A lot better...a Nice Taylor from the great year of 1912, to be smashed, would be a sin.
But bottles from 1913, are much better to smash, It was a poor year for Ports in general.
I am not sure, if a Dows vintage was even made i 1913. Those movies they Can trick You

[Brian C.]

I didn't see the movie, but is there some kind of symbolism involved by breaking a nonexistent vintage bottle? A throwaway bottle, so to speak?

More here: http://www.wineintro.com/movies/remainsoftheday/

[Moses Botbol]

[Christian Gollnick]

A very nice French-Portuguese movie was partially filmed at Graham's QUINTA DOS MALVEDOS... The English title is THE GILDED CAGE.
It's not about Port wine - but a comedy about a Portuguese family living in France that dreams about returning to the Douro... Very well done.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261749/