SFGate.com recalls George Taber’s 1976 “filler article” in Time magazine about “The Paris Tasting” that “revolutionized wine”:
Taber’s news brief – about French judges choosing a Cabernet Sauvignon and a Chardonnay from Napa Valley as superior to the best from their mother country in a blind tasting in Paris – continues to have impact around the wine world.
Apparently, up to the time of that tasting, one of the biggest misconceptions in the oenological world was that only France had the right terroir, “the sum of the effects that the environment has on the vines which produce a particular wine,” to make great wines. “After the Paris tasting, [it was] learned there are good soils everywhere – California, Australia, Chile.”
I am by no means a wine connoisseur (more of a beer man), but I have enjoyed some Shiraz wines that I’ve tried. I still haven’t really found any white wines that I like, though…
