Judgment of Paris

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The 1976 blind tasting where California wines beat French wines.

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British wine merchant Steven Spurrier organized a Paris blind tasting pitting top California wines against French benchmarks. Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet beat Mouton-Rothschild; Chateau Montelena Chardonnay beat Meursault. The French judges were stunned. The event shattered Old World superiority myths and legitimized New World wine on the global stage.

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