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Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine  
Author: George M. Taber
ISBN: 0743247515
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From Publishers Weekly
In 1976, a Paris wine shop arranged a tasting as a gimmick to introduce some California wines; the judges, of course, were all French and militantly chauvinistic. Only one journalist bothered to attend, a Time correspondent, looking for a possible American angle. The story he got turned out to be a sensation. In both red and white blind tastings, an American wine won handily: a 1973...