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Most Rewatchable Scene

Miles and Maya’s porch conversation

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  • The first Hitching Post visit is a scene candidate: Maya's interest meets Miles's negative assumption that she only wants tips, while Jack encourages him and her American Spirits entrance is admired.
  • The split-screen tasting leading to Stephanie is a scene candidate, especially her openly flirtatious spanking exchange with Jack and his immediate recognition of their chemistry.
  • The Los Olivos dinner is a scene candidate, beginning with Miles’s refusal to drink Merlot.
  • The dinner's phone-call sequence is admired as a cringe-inducing breakdown: ringing is heard before Miles calls his ex, like the inevitable disastrous calls in Swingers. Drinking is likened to pulling a grenade pin.
  • The kitchen/porch conversation is immediately called the scene to beat.
  • Richebourg,1988 Sassicaia, Andrew Murray and1961 Cheval Blanc are admired wine-name drops during the visit.
  • Miles’s incoherent description of his enormous novel is a comic highlight.
  • Miles's Pinot monologue is admired as an exceptional script passage, despite Payne reportedly downplaying its greatness.
  • Maya’s speech about wine’s evolving life and inevitable decline earns equal praise.
  • The performances keep the conspicuously written speeches natural; Miles visibly falls in love before ruining the opportunity.
  • The porch receives an explicit final scene choice.
  • The spit-bucket and beach sequence is another scene candidate.
  • Recovering the wallet is a comic scene candidate, admired for coexisting with the porch’s very different tone.
  • Gainey's uninhibited nude chase is admired as an outrageous comic performance; the couple's excitement at being caught adds to the joke.
  • The ambiguous ending and voicemail unlock Miles’s painful history.
  • Drinking prized wine with fast food gives Miles one good thing without a tidy self-improvement makeover.
  • The porch is confirmed as the scene winner.
  • The wedding encounter with the pregnant ex-wife is an additional admired scene, with Giamatti barely containing a breakdown and again deserving Oscar recognition.