Sideways.... the vineyards, the relations

MAYA
Can I ask you a personal question?

MILES
Sure.

MAYA
Why are you so into Pinot? It's like a thing with you.

MILES
I don't know. It's a hard grape to grow. As you know. It's thin-skinned, temperamental, ripens early. It's not a survivor like Cabernet that can grow anywhere and thrive even when neglected. Pinot needs constant care and attention and in fact can only grow in specific little tucked-away corners of the world. And only the most patient and nurturing growers can do it really, can tap into Pinot's most fragile, delicate qualities. Only when someone has taken the time to truly understand its potential can Pinot be coaxed into its fullest expression. And when that happens, its flavors are the most haunting and brilliant and subtle and thrilling and ancient on the planet.

MILES
I mean, Cabernets can be powerful and exalting, but they seem prosaic to me for some reason. By comparison. How about you?

MAYA
What about me?

MILES
I don't know. Why are you into wine?

MAYA
I suppose I got really into wine originally through my ex-husband. He had a big, kind of show-off cellar. But then I found out that I have a really sharp palate, and the more I drank, the more I liked what it made me think about.

MILES
Yeah? Like what?

MAYA
Like what a fraud he was.

Miles laughs.

MAYA
No, but I do like to think about the life of wine, 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 that summer or if it rained... what the weather was like. I think about all those people who tended and picked the grapes, and if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I love how wine continues to evolve, how every time I open a bottle it's going to taste different than if I had opened it on any other day. Because a bottle of wine is actually alive -- it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks -- like your '61 -- and begins its steady, inevitable decline. And it tastes so fucking good.

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Well... what has a bottle of wine to do with the human relationships... !!! Probably nothing.... wait.....until you watch the movie "Sideways...", in a way, even the movie doesnt try to signify the similarites... !!! Its a small budget movie with probably one of the least known hollywood starcast. The movie doesnt try to teach you a lesson. This is a story of two friends, their perspective. This is a movie about life, How it is.. and not how it should be.

Miles(Paul Giamatti), a failed writer, a divorce, who teaches at a Junior high school takes his old pal Jack(Thomas Haden Church) for a week-long road-trip through California's wine country. Miles and Paul both are good friends but exact opposite in nature. For Miles, the trip is about giving Jack a nice send-off before his marriage, as for Jack, It is just one of the escapades and flings. Miles wants to taste different wines and Jack wants to get laid as many times as possible during the trip. The two explore the beautiful vineyards while end up searching their own identities.

Miles meets his soulmate Maya(Virnigia Madsen) and thats when they discuss about wine, about life and about themselves.

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