A Good Year (2006)

Freddie Highmore: Young Max

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• Uncle Henry Skinner : [Bringing out two bottles of wine]  I thought, as it's your last night here, it only appropriate that we open something extra special.

  Young Max : [Pointing to one of the bottles]  Bandol.

  Uncle Henry Skinner : Excellent choice. Tempier Bandol, 1969, the kind of wine that'll pickle even the toughest of men. I once saw a Castilian prizefighter collapse in a heap after drinking just a single glass. Perhaps my knee landing squarely in his testicles may have been partly to blame... What was I talking about before?

  Young Max : You said the importance of a good blue suit can never be overstated.

  Uncle Henry Skinner : Quite right. A blue suit is the most versatile of accoutrements. More important than the suit itself, is the man who fits it for you. Once you find a good tailor, you must never give his name away - not even under the threat of bodily harm.

• Uncle Henry Skinner : Max, have I told you why I enjoy making wine so much?

  Young Max : You don't make the wine, Uncle Henry - that guy Duflot does.

  Uncle Henry Skinner : [Reproachfully]  In France it's always the landowner who makes the wine, even though he does nothing more than supervise with binoculars from the comfort of his study. No, I enjoy making wine, because this sublime nectar is quite simply incapable of lying. Picked too early, picked too late, it matters not - the wine will always whisper into your mouth with complete, unabashed honesty every time you take a sip.