Product Details
Scribner, November 2006
Trade Paperback, 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0743297326
ISBN-13: 9780743297325
Description
The Paris Tasting of 1976 will forever be remembered as the landmark event that transformed the wine industry. At this legendary contest -- a blind tasting -- a panel of top French wine experts shocked the industry by choosing unknown California wines over France's best.
George M. Taber, the only reporter present, recounts this seminal contest and its far-reaching effects, focusing on three gifted unknowns behind the winning wines: a college lecturer, a real estate lawyer, and a Yugoslavian immigrant. With unique access to the main players and a contagious passion for his subject, Taber renders this historic event and its tremendous aftershocks -- repositioning the industry and sparking a golden age for viticulture across the globe. With an eclectic cast of characters and magnificent settings, Judgment of Paris is an illuminating tale and a story of the entrepreneurial spirit of the new world conquering the old.
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How did you come to write this book?
I was the only journalist present that day and had to write the story for history.
"Engrossing."
-- Eric Asimov, The New York Times
"Judgment of Paris is one of the best books on California wine I've ever read."
-- James Laube, Wine Spectator
"[Taber] tells the tale with the same authority, depth, and clarity as the American wines that won. . . . Fascinating characters, great locales, and a fine bouquet."
-- Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin
"A vivid, robust story that goes down smoothly."
-- Entertainment Weekly
"If ever a story about wine could rise above the 'cooking, wine, and spirits' category and find a wider public, this is it."
-- Barron's
"Spirited, intelligent, and a deliciously entertaining good read. Essential for anyone who has ever enjoyed a good bottle of California wine."
-- Anthony Dias Blue, Executive Director of the San Francisco International Wine Competition
"I devoured Judgment of Paris and it is dazzling -- reads like a thriller, with the added benefit that the scholarship is impeccable too!"
-- Orley Ashenfelter, the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics at Princeton University and Publisher of Liquid Assets: The International Guide to Fine Wines
Home News Tribune, May 21, 2009
...wine seminar tent. You can also purchase her book at this time and have it signed. On Sunday, George Taber, author of 'Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and The Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine,' will be on hand to ...
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