Sideways

Memorable quote (s) from the movie:

Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti): What about you?

Maya (Virginia Madsen): What about me?

Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti): I don't know. Why are you into wine?

Maya (Virginia Madsen): Oh I... I think I... I originally got in to wine through my ex-husband.

Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti): Ah.

Maya (Virginia Madsen): You know, he had this big, sort of show-off cellar, you know.

Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti): Right.

Maya (Virginia Madsen): But then I discovered that I had a really sharp palate.

Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti):Uh-huh.

Maya (Virginia Madsen): And the more I drank, the more I liked what it made me think about.

Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti): Like what?

Maya (Virginia Madsen): Like what a fraud he was. No, I- I like to think about the life of wine.

Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti):Yeah.

Maya (Virginia Madsen): How it's a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks, like your '61. And then it begins its steady, inevitable decline.

Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti): Hmm.

Maya (Virginia Madsen): And it tastes so fucking good.