Château Cheval Blanc the wine. The film "Sideways" features the Cheval Blanc 1961 vintage as a plot element, despite the main character’s stated aversion to Merlot. Sean Connery drinks Château Cheval Blanc in the 1983 James Bond movie "Never Say Never Again". Restaurant critic Anton Ego, voiced by Peter O'Toole in the 2007 Disney film "Ratatouille," orders a bottle of Cheval Blanc 1947 to accompany "some fresh, clear, well-seasoned perspective". In the 2008 film Bottle Shock, which tells the story of Chateau Montelena, actor Freddy Rodriguez, depicting Gustavo Brambila, correctly guesses the 1947 Cheval Blanc in a blind taste at a dare in
Colette through the character of her mother, Sido. By this period Colette was frequently acclaimed as France's greatest woman writer. "It... has no plot, and yet tells of three lives all that should be known", wrote Janet Flanner of "Sido". "Once again, and at greater length than usual, she has been hailed for her genius, humanities and perfect prose by those literary journals which years ago... lifted nothing at all in her direction except the finger of scorn." Colette was 67 years old at the fall of France, and remained in Paris, in her apartment in the Palais Royal. Her husband