André – The Voice of Wine

EAST COAST PREMIERE. An epic journey of a Russian émigré who changed the world of wine forever.  André – The Voice of Wine takes us on a dramatic, illuminating, poetic, and wondrous cinematic journey from Russia through Europe to America as we embrace the story of André Tchelistcheff, who devoted his life to the ancient craft of winemaking.

André was a Russian Aristocrat and through his eyes we experience life in Imperial Russia to the upheaval of the civil war where he fought as a Lieutenant in the White Army. His early years were spent at university and working in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia and France.

His life in Napa Valley was filled with tragedy and success, revealing the inner strength of this modest man whose uncompromising passion pervaded his entire being and who helped move the Californian wine industry from a virtually moribund state after the repeal of Prohibition on to its renaissance in the second half of the twentieth century.

He had a direct impact on the 1976 Paris blind tasting, known as the “Judgement of Paris”, staged by Steven Spurrier which turned the world of wine upside down. André was not a businessman, but an artist and scientist whose heart and soul were devoted to wine. His philosophy about life and his love for wine continues to influence generations of wine makers throughout the world.

The story is told through André’s own voice and the voices of those who knew him best from the vineyards of California to the French wine growing regions to the hills of Tuscany with interviews with some of the most important wine makers and vintners today including Christian Mouiex, Michel Lafarge, Marchese Ludovico Antinori, Count Gelasio Gaetani d’Aragona, Michael Salacci, Greg Lafollette, Nikita Mikhalkov and Francis Ford Coppola among others.

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