“The Judgment of Paris put Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, the Napa Valley wine region, and the entire American wine industry on a path to worldwide renown,” said SLWC Winemaker Marcus Notaro. Even today its significance continues to be recognised within the Napa Valley, and naturally at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, which is celebrating its Golden Anniversary this year with a renewed commitment to producing complex, concentrated and age-worthy wines. The tasting put Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars and the Napa Valley on the map. (A 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay from California bested its French counterparts.) The result at the time was inconceivable. The winning red? A 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars ‘SLV’ Cabernet Sauvignon that topped four highly ranked Bordeaux, including Château Mouton-Rothschild and Château Haut-Brion. The identities of the wines were concealed, and the labels revealed only after the jury of nine French tasters had voted its order of preference. …It was in May 24, 1976, that Stephen Spurrier, an English wine merchant and wine critic, in celebration of the American Bicentennial activities in Paris, organised a tasting pitting high quality First Growth French red Bordeaux and white Burgundies against California Cabernet Sauvignons and Chardonnays. Over 4 decades have passed since a simple, blind wine-tasting, later to be known as the ‘Judgement of Paris’, when the then unknown Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars blasted out of the water the old world ideas of where a world-class Cabernet comes from…
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