Aled Owen is a writer and filmmaker born in Carmarthen, Wales. He acted onstage from a young age and even won third place in 2012's Britain's Got Talent as part of Only Boys Aloud, a traditional Welsh ...

“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 ...

“Sideways,” the character comedy that took the wine world by storm, turns 20 this week. Director Alexander Payne says he never could have foreseen its impact — with a Sideways hotel and themed wine ...

Merlot is a much maligned grape in the 2004 movie “Sideways.” But its lead character, wine snob Miles Raymond, never tried these excellent bottles. St. Francis, 2021 Sonoma Valley Reserve Merlot, 14.8 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since Paul Giamatti’s Pinot Noir-guzzling character in “Sideways” snarled, “I am not drinking any Merlot” — sprinkling in an R-rated expletive — the wine world has never quite been the same. Soon ...

The cult classic wine adventure film “Sideways” turns 20 this year, and Napa Valley’s Markham Vineyards is tipping its cap to the film that infamously attempted to sabotage Merlot. In the film about ...

Anyone who has seen the 2004 movie “Sideways” knows that Merlot did not exactly receive a ringing endorsement in that film. In an example of life imitating art, Merlot sales suffered in the real world ...

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 When director Alexander Payne set out to create the 2004 film “Sideways,” based on the then-unpublished novel by Rex Pickett about ...

When director Alexander Payne set out to create the 2004 film “Sideways,” based on the then-unpublished novel by Rex Pickett about two friends’ wine-fueled visit to the Santa Ynez Valley, his ...