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MySomm has always had a huge passion for the wines from
across the pond. We have been fortunate enough to visit the
West coast a number of times and in our opinion, there are
not many places in the world that can beat Napa Valley. The
US has been producing some of the world’s finest wines for a
very long time, however it was not until 1976 that the rest of
USA
the world took them seriously. On the 24th May in 1976 a
Argentina
local British wine merchant hosted a tasting in Paris with the
very best of France’s wine journalists and judges. The tasting consisted of some First Growth Bordeaux including Mouton
In the mid 1900s, the Malbec grape varietal...
Rothschild and Haut-Brion, alongside a number of New wave American wines. Obviously, the French, being French, sniggered and thought it was some sort of joke tasting. However, the wines were all served blind and yes, you guessed it, The Americans won! Three of the US whites tasted were marked in the top five. Six of the panel put Chateau Montelena Chardonnay first, giving this the top spot. In the reds both Stags Leap Wine Cellars and Ridge Vineyards were top of the class, with Stags Leap winning overall. As you can imagine that after this, The US wine industry was taken a little more seriously.