Posted on 05/27/2006 7:31:42 AM PDT by Atlantic Bridge
Oops, they did it again. Judges in a rematch of a 1976 blind taste test between French and Californian wines have handed the laurels to California for a second time. The French wine industry gnashes its teeth.
Thirty years ago, nine French wine experts shocked the world -- and themselves -- when they ranked certain California wines above their French counterparts in a blind taste test that came to be called, notoriously, "The Judgment of Paris." The French defended their belles dames at the time by sniping that the young west-coast wines wouldn't age well. "Our wines will improve with time," they sniffed. So the Briton who organized the Paris contest mounted a thirtieth-anniversary re-enactment on Wednesday in London and California, to see how time had treated the wines. Results? In brief: California smacks down France -- again!
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Thanks! Fight On!
My cars are assembled in America but carry an imported name tag. That is because I like bang for the buck. When it comes to wine, I usually dring domestic, because if you are selective you can get a good wine for the buck.
Kiss French, Drink California.
New Zealand's Rieslings and Chardonnays are world class too. Unfortunately, most people aren't able to buy them from oveseas.
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