Our selection of films and series on wine to watch with the family during the holidays

Holy Love (2016)

A comedy that will change forever Tanned people go skiing or Santa Claus is trash. Especially since it is also tinged with a more dramatic veil. Bruno, played by Benoît Poelvoorde, is a farmer who drowns his unhappiness in alcohol. While he is participating in the agricultural show in Paris like every year with his father Jean (Gérard Depardieu), the latter tells him that they are finally going to take a vacation by going on the wine route. An idea that delights Bruno since he usually has the habit of making his own wine route, within the agricultural show. But Jean has another idea in mind: that of convincing his son to take over the family business. The two farmers will embark on this adventure aboard a Parisian taxi in the company of a surprising driver named Mike, played by an excellent Vincent Lacoste.

Premiers Crus (2015)

A father and son again, but this time seen from a slightly more dramatic angle. François Maréchal, played by Gérard Lanvin, owns a wine estate in Côte d'Or. Since the Revolution, the land has passed from hand to hand in the family over generations to produce one of the greatest Aloxe-Corton wines. After years of hard work, he had to face the facts: the passion for the vine was no longer there and the estate was destined for a destiny other than family transmission. His son Charlie (Jalil Lespert) then returns from Paris where he is an oenologist to take over the family business under the passive-aggressive training of his father. This challenge, which promises to be difficult, could ultimately turn out well…

The Crime of the Sommelier (2014)

And why not mix crime fiction and wine? This is the promise kept by this drama with Italian flavors, inspired by the novel Wine Inside by Fabio Marcoto. Giovani Cuttin (Vicenzo Amato) gave up everything to pursue his sudden passion for wine and become an oenologist. His career takes off, until the day he is accused of killing his wife Adèle (Giovanna Mezzogiorno). A mysterious investigator will take on the task of unraveling this mystery in which wine and the dramatic acts it causes are at the heart of the plot.

You will be my son (2011)

Family affairs from father to son seem to inspire screenwriters to bring the subject of wine to the screen. But this time, the dramatic story takes place in the Bordeaux region, more particularly in Saint-Emilion. Paul de Marseul played by Niels Arestrup, who recently passed away, owns a prestigious estate there which it will soon be time to entrust to new hands. The candidate may seem obvious: Paul has a son, Martin (Lorrant Allemand), who studied this precise science of the vine and who already works with him. But the owner of the place has no confidence in his descendants to manage the estate, due to a lack of charisma and talent according to him. A candidate more to his liking then emerges: Philippe (Nicolas Bridet), the son of his manager. A real duel of merit will begin between the two potential heirs of the vineyard.

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Drops of God (2023)

For those who are more into series than films, here is an unmissable proposition in terms of oenology. In “The Drops of God”, we follow Alice Léger (Fleur Greffier), daughter of the famous oenologist Alexandre Léger (Stanly Weber). Alice was educated to decipher the slightest subtlety of the greatest wines, but she has definitely broken with the world of wine and alcohol in general, to the point of no longer drinking a drop. While she is a writer in Paris, her father, to whom she has not spoken for years, dies in Japan. Not surprisingly, his will constitutes the largest collection of wines in the world. But to claim the succession, Alice will have to face Tomine Issei in an oenological competition, a former student of her father whom he considered his spiritual son.