Watch Designer Wines

Only a few years ago the business of growing and selling high quality wines was tightly controlled by just a handful of countries. France of course, Germany, Italy. They utterly dominated the wine world and there was no possibility that their domination would ever be broken. Now, just a decade or so later, and we have some of the finest award winning wines coming from all over, from California and Australia, and South Africa and Chile and more. Labels that scarcely existed just that short time ago are now household names around the world. Just how did that revolution happen? This unique programme traces the extraordinary way in which the science and the art of European wine making was distilled and transplanted across the world so successfully, that the new generation of wine makers now regularly beat their European parents to the top world prizes. Learn more about great wines in 50 minutes, than you have learned in a lifetime.

Designer Wines is a 2009 documentary with a runtime of 48 minutes.