4/16/2023 0 Comments Mr hands video vimeoItalian wine industry priorities for new government "After having expanded, modernised and touched-up his Saint-Emilion property, Frédéric Stévenin is looking to develop Châteaux de Vieux Maillet and de Lussac in the same manner," said a press release from the Stévenin family. According to French wine news website,, the pair had acquired the properties in the 2000s. Pomerol's Château Vieux Maillet and Château de Lussac ( Lussac-Saint-Emilion) also reportedly changed hands this week, with the Stévenin family (who already own the 25-hectare Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Château de Saint Pey) snapping them up from previous owners Griet Van Malderen and Hervé Laviale. While several stories this week detailed the sale of Château Peyrabon in the Haut-Médoc (snapped up via a holding company by the well-known Castéja négoce family of Château Batailley, just further east in Pauillac) there was movement too on Bordeaux's Right Bank. Here, though, is the other news you might have missed this week. The news of the founding of the Bordeaux Pirates union also began to do the rounds, highlighting the initiative to promote "alternative and innovative winemakers" in the region, spearheaded by Jean-Baptiste Duquesne from Château Cazebonne in the Graves. Port house Kopke declared the 2020 vintage (a little late to the party as Taylor's, Quinta do Noval and Sogevinus, Kopke's umbrella group, had already declared vintages six months ago) and took the opportunity to launch its new, 50-Year-Old Tawny and 50-Year-Old White Ports. Meanwhile, Chinese authorities look to have busted the country's biggest wine smuggling ring which, according to Chinese wine website Vino-Joy, amounts to 368 million Chinese Yuan (US$52 million) worth of smuggled wines and reportedly involves an unnamed Bordeaux merchant. Regardless of the questionable subject matter, "Zoo" is a dreamy & highly elegant film that comes with my highest possible recommendation.© Tourisme-Médoc | The Haut-Médoc estate Château Peyrabon was one of three Bordeaux properties to change hands this week.įirst up, the organisers of the biennial Bordeaux Wine Festival announced the event would now take place annually. The photography is truly enchanting and the sober music, oh my God the music, literally sent cold shivers down my spine. The bitterness and noticeable martyr-tone in their voices gives a whole unique dimension of realism to the film. The on screen characters are, with the exception of some supportive ones, hired actors but the guiding voice-overs come from actual interviews with the real Zoos. The narrative and filming style of "Zoo" is also quite original and refreshing. If anything, you almost feel like Robinson Devor is to blame for patronizing & protecting these Zoophiles too much, but then still you don't as they already suffered more than enough scandal in various other media. There isn't a single explicit shot to be found in "Zoo" and the story hardly even hints at sleaze or schlock. In the hands of any other random exploitation-filmmaker, "Zoo" probably would have existed of nothing more than images of slavering rednecks cheering and queuing to bend over in front of a horse. Of course this doesn't justify their sexual preferences, but at least you don't simply label them as a bunch of perverted freaks. The documentary primarily depicts these Zoos as confused and introverted people with a devoted affection for animals. Rather than to bluntly categorize the Zoos (short term for Zoophiles) as sick & twisted individuals as well, Devor's film digs a lot deeper into their pasts and personalities. The "shocking" news spawned a giant debate and even some riots because apparently there weren't any laws against bestiality in the state of Washington at the time and all sorts of animal rights organizations launched hate-campaigns. The media promptly jumped onto this story and in practically no time the authorities unraveled a small but nevertheless fanatic network of people who regularly gathered for a weekend of beer, pizza and animal sex. A middle aged and divorced man died there as a result of internal bleedings after and here comes the kicker experiencing sexual intercourse with a horse. Robinson Devor, the young and clearly promising young writer/director of "Zoo", based himself on real events as they occurred in Seattle in 2005. As strange as it may sound, this documentary/drama is actually very sober, tasteful and not the least bit disrespectful towards people with peculiar (to put it mildly) sexual likings. Please don't let the graphic title of this user-comment mislead you (I just couldn't resist writing this), as "Zoo" is in fact - everything but an exploitative and perverted excuse to finally revolve a movie on the controversial topic of bestiality.
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