The Wines of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, have a character of their own

We all want to be like Bordeaux. Even last year, 30 years after some Napa wines beat out Bordeaux's best in an expert blind tasting now known as the Tasting of Paris, a newish Napa producer called Vineyard 7 and 8 arranged a similar blind tasting of its own wine, hoping to show that it was of equal pedigree to top-rank Bordeauxs. The results were mixed. In addition, a 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon from Stags Leap Wine Cellars in Napa took first prize in the Paris tasting. (Incidentally, that was the same year that the Hargraves began planting winegrapes on the North Fork.)

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