Romantic movies on Valentine's Day... with a good wine
The good thing about Valentine's Day being a weekend is that you can make various plans, from going out for a short walk to a romantic meal and wine before curfew. But for the most cautious lovebirds, the best plan for two also has a perfect match: the one formed by the cinema (the one that tells love stories) and the wine.
SABRINA, BILLY WILDER (ITUNES) + LA GÁNDARA, LEÓN (€48, SOURCES OF SILENCE)
A delightful classic to return to repeatedly, a captivating story of interclass love with great actors (Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden make up the leading trio), the sarcastic humor of a Wilder in top form and even outfits for the history of fashion, those of Hubert deGivenchy , the dressmaker who signed here a perpetual association with the British actress.
Sabrina by Billy Wilder
A film with a refined cut that asks for a wine to match, and though we might be thinking of a french, maybe, a good burgundy (When is not a good time for a burgundy?), would be the easiest option (Sabrina returns from Paris a sophisticated damsel and dreams of returning accompanied by David, the gallant with whom she falls madly in love and for whom she leaves years before to the French capital…” Paris is always a good idea ”, she comments at some point) and that is precisely why her thing is to change the third and uncork a red wine that, in a way, is also a bit like Sabrina, a wine that emerges after passing through the hands of the team she leads Marta Ramas, oenologist at Fuentes del Silencio, a hundred-year-old vineyard in Mencía that goes from rusticity to elegance . Here the winery is Paris... and the film, the wine, a story of finesse, delicacy and elegance that, like a good masterpiece, endures over time.
Fountains of Silence
La Gándara, León (Fountains of Silence)
La Gándara, León (Fountains of Silence)
APARTMENT, BILLY WILDER (FILMIN) + BLANCA CUSINÉ 2012 (€18, PARÉS BALTÀ)
Yes, I love Billy Wilder, I'm not going to deny it. Y Apartment It is a love movie that no one who likes romantic movies should stop watching once, twice, thirty times. Here Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine embroider their roles as losers (deep down they are both, but deliciously sticky, yes): he, a middling employee with an apartment that is coveted by their bosses for its riding qualities (and of course, every time the bosses want to snack, poor Bud Baxter has to go till they're done) ; she, a loser who blindly throws herself into the arms of one of those bosses thinking that he will leave everything for her... In short, a movie with ingredients to enjoy, especially with the two protagonists, who shine in every scene.
Apartment
By the way, in the famous apartment, a modest bachelor pad where Bud lives on his modest salary, Two lamps from the famous Tiffany Studios appear as decoration, with a value of more than 70,000 dollars (about 58,000 euros) . And it is that unexpected jewels can appear anywhere, for example, in a bottle of cava like Blanca Cusiné's , a pleasant, intense, elegant and tasty wine, with an addictive complexity. A wine called to be an imperishable classic, like El Apartamento.
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Blanca Cusiné 2012 (Parés Baltà)
Blanca Cusiné 2012 (Parés Baltà)
EDUARDO SCISSORHANDS, TIM BURTON (DISNEY CHANNEL) + ORGANIC ARÍNZANO MERLOT (€42, ARÍNZANO)
Yes, Edward Scissorhands it is a story of love. Well, it can also be seen as a wonderful and great winter tale, but it is a true love story called to be impossible. A monster ( Johnny Depp in one of his best performances ) whose creator leaves it unfinished and keeps some scary scissors hands (the title already announced something like that, there are no surprises), and she, the spoiled girl of the family ( Winona Ryder, then, Depp's girlfriend and the name that he tattooed on his arm with the addition "forever" , an audacity that he had to pay for by removing the “na” and leaving wino forever, “drunk forever ”What comes to mind now) that opens his heart to Eduardo after seeing that he is a good guy and, in addition, that he incredibly trims the garden hedges or cuts sophisticated hairstyles for the neighbors. The family opens her heart to him but the capricious Kim, that's her name, rather takes advantage of her kindness and innocence and convinces her to do some dirty tricks.
Winona Ryder's famous dance under the 'snow'.
The thing ends with a fantasy about snow (I'll say no more, this movie is a must see) and leaving the caramelized spectators wanting more. Something like this happens with the organic merlot from Arínzano, a rarity that could frighten at first sight (it is a Navarrese merlot, with minimal intervention, a combination that looks wild) becomes, when you share it in the glass, a seductive, spicy and deep conversational partner... silent, that you must watch the movie without missing a second . Shhh.
Arinzano
Arínzano Organic Merlot (Arínzano)
Arínzano Organic Merlot (Arínzano)
THE GREAT LOVE SICKNESS, MICHAEL SHOWALTER (AMAZON PRIME) + CARRALCOBA ALBARIÑO (€25, RÍAS BAIXAS, EULOGIO POMARES)
A kind of dramatization / comedy, of a real love , that of the leading actor in the film, the comedian Kumail Nanjiani (playing himself, of course) and his real wife, Emily (V. Gordon), screenwriter of the film and played by Zoe Kazan . This cross-cultural love story between a Pakistani comedian (and an Uber driver when he's not on stage) and a student who, like someone who doesn't want it, fall in love, but more than they thought, and the religious and cultural differences interfere and blur a beautiful and hopeful romance . To make matters worse, Emily contracts a very rare disease that keeps her in a coma while the doctors find a solution and… well, you have to see the rest of her and enjoy the brilliant performances of Holly Hunter and Ray Romano, who play her parents.
The great love disease
The fact is that the film goes beyond what can be understood as a romantic comedy and becomes a jewel full of nuances, perspectives, completely defensible points of view... a small work of cinema art that deserves every minute of the 120 that it lasts . That is why the opportunity to see it snuggled up deserves another little wine gem like this piece of Albariño, a white that is addicting as the minutes go by in the glass and that is drunk like someone who watches a good movie: tasty, complex, round, intense, exciting... without realizing it, you have finished the bottle.
Eulogy Pomares
Carralcoba Albariño (Rías Baixas, Eulogio Pomares)
Carralcoba Albariño (Rías Baixas, Eulogio Pomares)
A STAR IS BORN (BRADLEY COOPER, NETFLIX) + VINDING MONTECARRUBO (€43, II CARRUBO 2017)
my mother, how tired to cry with this movie , a romance with capital letters and a quality musical background, with Lady Gaga playing that Ally, a star born thanks to Jack, the fallen rock star played by Bradley Cooper, who also directs the film. Unforgettable central theme 'Shallow' that earned the movie an Oscar , of the seven for which she was nominated. Superb the interpretations of the protagonists, who find chemistry as a couple on the screen not only romantic, but also musical, thanks, perhaps, at Gaga's insistence that the actors sing live instead of moving their lips like puppets. Exciting, emotional, human, sensitive, heartbreaking, beautiful … although some say that it is not a work of art, it is, however, a film that must be seen to make a good portfolio of romantic movies.
A star has been born
This is, without a doubt, just as Il Carrubo is a great wine, the Sicilian Syrah red produced by a Dane, coincidentally, the uncle of another Dane living in Spain who also makes wine (Does Peter Sisseck ring a bell, does Pingus ring a bell?). Doing it very well must be a family thing , because the one from Sicily behaves with tremendous finesse, he invites you to drink it slowly, enjoying its Mediterranean sensuality and his Frenchified profile, his slight warmth, his precision and roundness in the mouth . A little wonder.
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Vinding Montecarrubo (€43.56, Il Carrubo, 2017)
Vinding Montecarrubo (€43.56, Il Carrubo, 2017)
SHREK (PRIME VIDEO) + MÁIS ALÁ, XOSÉ LOIS SEBIO (€19.50)
It had to end with a sly, innovative love movie, a fairy tale reinvented in the story of a very ugly ogre who leaves his house by the swamp On a princess rescue mission Fiona, one with a secret . In between, cameos of characters from classic tales, voices of famous actors behind the characters ( Eddie Murphy, who plays the Donkey, says that Shrek is one of his best roles ), evil greedy princes, dragons, fairies and good music as a soundtrack. Oscar winner for best animated film, Shrek , name of the protagonist ogre (and which means "monster" in Yiddish, has his name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and, as a curiosity, has 36 locations throughout its footage, more than any other animated film by computer.
Shrek
Gossip aside, the relaxed moment of sitting down to watch it suits this Mais Alá, a fabulous godello from the Falcoeira area that hooks as does the charm of Shrek . Xose Lois Sebio, who is behind this wine, takes her adventure "beyond" Ribeiro, her natural landscape, as seriously as she does Shrek with his mission, and get his particular princess, in this case, a bottle (a few, rather) of an elegant wine, well achieved, that glides through the mouth and masterfully combines complexity and fluidity.
Come on, you can go back to it next Valentine's Day and enjoy it again like the first time, maybe, with the next film in the green ogre series.
Xose Lois Sebio
Mais Allah (Xosé Lois Sebio, €22)
More Allah (Xosé Lois Sebio, €19.50)