I saw an early screening of “Bottle Shock,” the first of two movies about the 1976 Judgment of Paris, and interviewed some of the cast and filmmakers for my Aug. 6 column. That’s the day the film comes out.

Be warned. It’s entertaining and a welcome replacement for “Sideways,” (it’s about time for new vinocinema, no?) but it hardly follows history. 

The film centers around the tumultous relationship between the Barretts of Chateau Montelena, specifically, founder and owner Jim and his son, Bo. Mike Grgich, who made the winning 1973 Chardonnay that beat out the French, is nowhere. Neither is Patricia Gallagher, who thought up the Judgment, nor anyone from Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, who produced the winning 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon.

If anything, Warrnen Winiarski’s life has the most compelling, movie-like structure.

There are a host of other falacies, mostly based on stereotypes, in the film but I’ll let you see them for yourself. Read my column on Aug. 6 but be warned: I’m not as syrupy sweet as I usually am.