TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

PROMO     10/19/2008     "Drinking Pleasure"
*Picking up a bottle of wine for dinner used to be simple. It pretty much
depended on how much you wanted to spend, since everything came from France.
Not anymore! Next time on To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll look at what
happened to the wine world in 1976, when wine from the Napa Valley won a blind
tasting and turned the industry upside down. The makers of the new film
"Bottle Shock" share the story.


PROGRAM RUNDOWN:"Drinking Pleasure"

0:00 - 1:00    Billboard (1:00)

1:00 - 6:00    SILENCE (5:00)

6:00 - 30:51   SEGMENT 1: (24:52)
     Wine journalist Alice Feiring tells Anne Strainchamps what's in the
     average glass of wine besides grapes, and why she opposes the dominant,
     market-driven, one palate fashion of the wine industry. Her book is "The
     Battle for Wine and Love or How I Saved the World from Parkerization." 
     Also, Randall Miller and Jody Savin wrote, directed and are distributing
     the 2008 Sundance Festival film, "Bottle Shock."  They talk with Jim
     Fleming about the film which tells the story of the famous blind taste
     testing where California wines first triumphed over French wines and
     changed the wine world forever. And we hear several clips from the film. 
          
     Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio International."

30:52 - 31:21  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

31:22 - 44:36  SEGMENT 2: (13:15)
     A bit of Tom Paxton's "Bottle of Wine" sets us up for the darker side of
     drinking.  Koren Zailckas started drinking at fourteen.  Her memoir of
     her teens is called "Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood."  She tells
     Steve Paulson how frighteningly easy it is for very young girls to get
     alcohol, and indicts colleges for accepting student drunkenness as a
     normal part of the college experience.  And, we hear a musical
     cautionary tale from Flanders and Swann - their 1957 recording of
     "Madeira M'Dear."
                                             
     Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio International."

44:37 - 45:06  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

45:07 - 59:00  SEGMENT 3: (13:53)
     Neil Steinberg is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and the author
     of "Drunkard: A Hard-Drinking Life."  He tells Jim Fleming about the
     incident that sent him to rehab, what rehab is really like, and why AA
     seems to work, even when you intellectually reject its basic premises.   
          
     Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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