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Judgment Of Paris California Vs. France And The Historic 1976 Wine Tasting That Changed The World

(PB )

by:
Taber, George

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Product Details:

PB :

336 Pages

Publisher:

Scribner

Pub. Date:

Oct 03, 2006

Photos:

Black and White Photographs and Illustrations

Our Part #:

09611

ISBN-10:

0743297326

ISBN-13:

9780743297325

Description:

New in paperback! Told for the first time by the only reporter present, the full story of the mythic Paris Tasting of 1976--a blind tasting where a panel of esteemed French judges shocked the industry by choosing unknown California wines over France's best--an event that revolutionized the world of wine.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History houses, amid its illustrious artifacts, two bottles of wine: a 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon, and a 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay. These are the wines that won at a now-famous blind tasting in Paris in 1976, where a panel of top French wine experts compared some of France's most famous wines with a new generation of California wines. Little did they know the wine industry would be completely transformed as a result, sparking a golden age for viticulture that extend beyond Frances borders--in Australia, Chile, South Africa, New Zealand--and across the glove.

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