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No. Bottle Shock is based on a screenplay written by director Randall Miller along with screenwriters Jody Savin and Ross Schwartz.

The official website for Bottle Shock can be found here.

The "Judgment of Paris" refers to the 1976 Paris Wine Tasting, a wine competition in which French judges did blind tasting of wines from both France and California. Surprising everyone, California wines rated best in each category, which rocked France's title as being the foremost producer of the world's best wines.

As mentioned early in the movie, the phrase "bottle shock" refers to an actual phenomenon in the world of oenology (the study of wine and wine making). When wine is first bottled or is shaken during travel, its taste or color can be negatively affected by the contact with oxygen. The brown color of Chateau Montelena's Chardonnay near the end of the movie is an example of such a phenomenon. As in the movie, the effect is temporary and will disappear over time.