Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When director Alexander Payne set out to create the 2004 film “Sideways,” based on the then-unpublished novel by Rex Pickett about ...

Paul Giamatti’s character Miles Raymond in the movie "Sideways" was as passionately anti-merlot as he was passionately pro-pinot noir. The merlot revulsion flowed from his ex-wife’s love of merlot, ...

It was one line in the 2004 film Sideways, but 10 years later it still reverberates. The set-up: Thomas Haden Church's womanizing character Jack tries to get Paul Giamatti's wine snob character Miles ...

Paul Giamatti’s character Miles Raymond in the movie "Sideways" was as passionately anti-merlot as he was passionately pro-pinot noir. The merlot revulsion flowed from his ex-wife’s love of merlot, ...

It was one line in the 2004 film "Sideways," but 10 years later it still reverberates. The setup: Thomas Haden Church's womanizing character Jack tries to get Paul Giamatti's wine snob Miles to join ...

This October marks not only the advent of Merlot Month, created as a backlash to the film “Sideways,” but also the 20th anniversary of that movie. To commemorate the flood of really mediocre pinot ...

I have an interesting relationship with Alexander Payne's 2004 film "Sideways," which I recently screened for my LifeQuest class. A few years before the movie came out, my wife Karen and I took a wine ...

Merlot was once the fan-favorite red grape and wine. Then came 2004 hit movie Sideways, in which Miles, the pinot-noir-loving main character, trashes the varietal before heading into a bar: “If anyone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexander Payne had modest expectations for Sideways when his unassuming indie about an antic-filled buddy road trip through ...

“Sideways” is best-known as the hit film that follows the antics of two friends on a wine-sipping spree in the Santa Ynez Valley. But for wine lovers, the movie is often reduced to what merlot-bashing ...

Paul Giamatti’s character Miles Raymond in the movie Sideways was as passionately anti-merlot as he was passionately pro-pinot noir. The merlot revulsion flowed from his ex-wife’s love of merlot, but ...