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How Two California Wines Shattered Centuries of French Supremacy in a Blind Taste Test
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Mike Gergich learned about his Paris victory via telegram, just two years after his winery launched, at age 100.
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A blind tasting in Paris turns California wine into a direct challenge to French wine authority.
The 1976 Judgment of Paris gives this episode its sharp break point: nine French judges, tasting blind, chose two California wines over France's elite vintages and unsettled a wine world built around French authority.
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You want the blind tasting where California wines stunned French judges and changed the wine world's map.
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