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07.06.2005

The wine story of the 20th Century

I couldn't help but pass on this nice little story from the Chronicle about the "tasting heard round the world" -- the legendary 1976 tasting where a panel of French judges selected California wines over French wines in a blind tasting for the first time in history.

Turns out that this tasting was a bit of a non-event, and the only journalist present was a wine-writing rookie from Time magazine (who happened to speak perfect French). Yet this one small tasting of Chardonnay and Cabernet transformed the wine world in a single fell swoop, toppling France from its pedestal as the only place in the world that "experts" said could produce world-class wines.

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Good Morning Gentle Readers, It didn't really make the news, just a paltry four paragraph filler by George Taber in Time Magazine, yet this 1976 non-event created ripples in the wine world that are still felt today. That is definitely Read more

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