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Article: Blind tasting was an eye-opener
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- May 10, 2006
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ROBERT WHITLEY
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
05-10-2006
Blind tasting was an eye-opener
ROBERT WHITLEY
Date: 05-10-2006, Wednesday
Section: FOOD
Edtion: All Editions
Column: WINE TALK
Much noise has been made recently about the infamous Paris tastings of 1976, when a California chardonnay and cabernet, both from the Napa Valley, bested several hand-picked stars of Burgundy and Bordeaux in a blind tasting at the Paris wine shop of British wine merchant Steven Spurrier.
The results of the tasting shocked the French wine trade and firmly established California's credentials as a place of considerable merit in the production of wine.
At the time, California wines were scoffed at by the French, which ...