Sour Grapes

Sour Grapes

True Story - Fake Wine

2016 · 86 min · ★ 7.3 · Documentary

Controversy erupts when an unassuming young man floods the American wine market with fake vintages valued in the millions, bamboozling the wine world elite, in this humorous and suspenseful tale of an ingenious con on the eve of the 2008 stock market crash.

Directed by Reuben Atlas

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