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Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
Wine Tours & Tastings
The Paris Wine Tasting of 1976—known as the Judgment of Paris—was a wine competition organized in Paris on 24 May 1976 by Steven Spurrier, a British wine merchant, in which French judges carried out two blind tasting comparisons: one of top-quality Chardonnays and another of red wines . A Californian wine rated best in each category, which caused surprise as France was generally regarded as being the foremost producer of the world's best wines. Spurrier sold only French wine and believed that the California wines would not win.The event's informal name Judgment of Paris is an allusion to the ancient Greek myth.
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