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JW Jason Wise Documentary filmmaker and producer behind the SOMM film series about wine and the master sommelier exam, and a founder of the SOMM TV food and wine streaming se...

“wine is used in this movie in a way that when people are drinking it, and this is kind of an unfortunate thing for wine, the people who are drinking it are not the best of people. And I think wine is used as a way to show that these people are a certain kind of people.”

SOMM TV wine & food · Food & Beverage · October 2026

“wine is used in this movie in a way that when people are drinking it, and this is kind of an unfortunate thing for wine, the people who are drinking it are not the best of people. And I think wine is used as a way to show that these people are a certain kind of people.” — Jason Wise, SOMM TV wine & food

Context

Discussing Get Out, the host notes that the wine drinkers are the film's snooty, villainous family and their friends. Wine works as shorthand for character, which he calls unfortunate for wine's image.

Transcript

SOMM TV wine & food Around 13:48 into the episode
Jason Wise

I'm having some very, very, very cheap Sauvignon Blanc I bought for cooking wine, but I had nothing else to open during this podcast. So here I am.

Jonah Beer

I love it. Still goes okay, my friend.

Jason Wise

…would say, if you were to ask me the genre of it. I picked Get Out. And I think Get Out is a really important film for a number of reasons. There's a lot of wine in it. And I do feel that the wine is one of the, there are a lot of like red flags in this movie. And I mean red flags in the way that you raise it, you wave it to a bull. And when something happens, the bull is going to charge. And so wine is used in this movie in a way that when people are drinking it, and this is kind of an unfortunate thing for wine, the people who are drinking it are not the best of people. And I think wine is used as a way to show that these people are a certain kind of people. It's a very East Coast. I'm trying to think of the best Eastern seaboard way to describe this, but very, very snooty. And also preppy in their awful doing very awful things. But I will say, there is a chance I would throw my life away for Allison Williams in this film until I would realize that was a very bad decision because there's something very interesting and phenomenal about her. Her…

Jonah Beer

Oh, okay. Jeez. Okay. All right. And

Jason Wise

so you living in Napa. I'm working in this industry. We're going to get ourselves in some shit here because there's one more scene to go that's even worse that happens in this movie. Okay. So I would like to ask you: Yeah, you have Bradley Whitford's character. Yeah. He wishes he could have voted…

Jonah Beer

Yeah. Yeah. He's drinking

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