Natural State of Wine

Movie Review: The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Episode Summary

Luke Baldwin joins the podcast to review what could be the “Greatest Wine Movie” ever! Join us as we break down The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Anthony Quinn and Hardy Krüger. This story follows Italio Bombolini, the newly elected mayor of Santa Vitoria, a hillside village in Italy during WW2. When villagers hear that the retreating nazis will be coming through their town, they hide 1 million botttles of wine in an old Roman Cave. Based on the novel by Robert Crichton.