“Uncorked” kicks off on a delicious note of culture clash.
As hectoring hip-hop pounds over the opening credits, the movie cuts back and forth between the owner of a Southern barbecue joint preparing the day’s fixins — grilling the pork ribs, stirring the tangy red sauce — and California vintners working their chem-lab alchemy to convert luscious green grapes into wine.
There’s a parallel meticulousness that tells us we’re seeing variations on the same palette-tickling ideal.
Yet the sequence, inevitably, also conjures up a ripe culinary class war of lowbrow v.
highbrow.All those dynamics are at play in “Uncorked,” an earnest, scrappy, and finally touching drama about a young man from Memphis who’s got a dream — he’s a wine buff who wants to become a sommelier — but if he follows it, it will tear him away from everything his father yearned for him to be.
That,
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