New York Wine Tasting of 1973
The
New York Wine Tasting of 1973 was organized by pioneering alcohol journalist
Robert Lawrence Balzer. He assembled 14 leading wine experts including France's
Alexis Lichine, who owned two Chateaux in Bordeaux, a manager of the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, and Sam Aaron, a prominent New York wine merchant. They evaluated 23 Chardonnays from California, New York, and France in a blind tasting before an assemblage of 250 members of the New York Food and Wine Society.
The group was shocked when California Chardonnays received the top four scores. Fifth place went to the 1969
Beaune Clos des Mouches Joseph Drouhin. Other French wines in the competition were the 1970
Corton-Charlemagne Louis Latour, the 1971
Pouilly-Fuisse Louis Jadot, and the 1970
Chassagne-Montrachet Marquis de Laguiceh Joseph Drouhin.
News of the tasting didn't travel much beyond a small circle of wine connoisseurs. However, results of the subsequent
Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 traveled far and wide and led to a revolution in the world of wine.
The following
wine competitions are unique and highly significant because (1) all tasting was done blind and (2) the results were listed in rank order from highest to lowest. For example, if 12 wines were evaluated, they were ranked from one (the highest) to 12 (the lowest). There were no multiple winners except in the case of multiple categories (for example one red wine winner and one white wine winner).
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Paris Wine Tasting of 1976*
Wine Olympics*
Great Chardonnay Showdown*
French Culinary Institute Wine Tasting of 1986*
Wine Spectator Wine Tasting of 1986*
San Diego Wine Tasting of 1975 *
San Francisco Wine Tasting of 1978 *
Ottawa Wine Tasting of 1981*
Grand European Jury Wine Tasting of 1997*
Halekulani Wine Tasting of 2000*
Berlin Wine Tasting of 2004 *
Ottawa Wine Tasting of 2005 *
St. Catharines Wine Tasting of 2005*
The Wine Rematch of the Century(30th Anniversary of the Paris 1976 Tasting)
Also see
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Blind tasting of wine*
Globalization of wine*
California Wine*
French wine*
Bordeaux wine*Taber, George M.
Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine. NY: Scribner, 2005.
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French Wine Producers
