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The Judgement of Paris II

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Dan McFeeley

Dan McFeeley

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Hello all --

Some time back Oskaar had posted about the 30th anniversary of the famous (or infamous, if you're French ;) ) blind tasting in 1976 between Californian and French wines. California rocked the French world when their wines beat out the French wines, proving to the world that the USA had attained world class status in winemaking.

There had been talk about restaging the blind tasting, using the same wines only now aged. Well, it happened and the US once again came out ahead. We not only proved that we can make world class wines, we proved that our wines age well.

I don't have time to post details of the re-enactment, and Oskaar may want to chip in on this since he started the thread to being with. Heck, he's probably long term friends with the California winemakers who participated in the tasting! ;D
 
Here is some great information on the Judgement of Paris II where we found our California wines kicked some French ass yet again. There are some great comments in here about the event, a blog by one of the panelists, and the panelist bios. I've only been involved in one event where I've met any of the panelists and the one that springs to my mind is Anthoy Dias Blue. Not a whole lot of interaction there, so I can't really comment on him or his style.

I do know several folks who worked at Chateau Montalena, Freemark Abbey, Heitz and Ridge (wine folks in Napa and Sonoma are nomadic and move from one winery to another pretty regularly) along with Silver Oak, Gundlach Bundschu, Grand Cru and Sebastiani.

Here's the link.

Cheers,

Oskaar
 
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