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******************************** A French Revolution That Ushered in a Global, Golden Age of Wine http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&id=1333 Oenophiles who these days mention California wines -- or Australian and Chilean wines for that matter -- in the same breath as French wines, can do so because of a revolution that occurred one May day in Paris nearly 30 years ago. At a wine tasting, with French judges, California wines came out ahead of French wines in both the white and red categories. That 1976 event was little noticed. Only one journalist was present at the wine tasting, George M. Taber, then a correspondent for Time magazine. It quickly became clear to him that something big had happened. The event was the catalyst in transforming wine-drinkers' tastes and perceptions and paved the way for the globalization of the wine industry, he writes in a new book, Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine. Taber spoke recently with Knowledge@Wharton.
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