Still gamme after all these years:
NAPA, California, May 24, 2006 (AFP) - California wines trounced Bordeaux anew in an epic rematch of a historic blind taste test credited with reshaping the enology world.
Wines from California's Napa Valley wine region were judged best by the combined scores of twin panels, one in California and a second in London.
Judges on both continents gave top honors to a 1971 Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet from Napa.
....The highest ranked Bordeaux was a 1970 Chateau Mouton Rothschild, which placed sixth out of the ten wines tasted in the anniversary recreation of the historic "Judgment of Paris" tasting on May 24, 1976.
Bordeaux wines took sixth through ninth places on Wednesday....
The event was "a wonderful sustained victory" for California wines because they held their own against the Bordeaux wine, considered the most elegant aging reds in the world, Vanneque said.
....A "pre-eminent European contingent" headed by renowned British wine writer Steven Spurrier tasted the resurrected vintages at the same time at Berry Brothers and Rudd in London.
"We now know that California wines wiped the boards with the French wines," Spurrier said by telephone from London.
"No French wine is ever going to compare to a California red," he quipped.
....The 1973 Stag's Leap Cellars Cabernet that won in 1976 placed a dignified second in the rematch.
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