David Shaw, on the Case (of Wine)

Move over, King-Drew! Today in his ‘Matters of Taste’ column, David Shaw brings the full force of the LA Times‘s investigative resources to solving the mystery of an obscure local Pinot vintage, which, in an upset, may have won a wine tasting competition in France in the seventies. When Shaw hears rumors about this almost-three-decades passed incident, I think he speaks for all of us when he writes:

Wow! Like most wine lovers, I was, of course, familiar with the celebrated ’76 Paris tasting in which a 1973 Stag’s Leap Cabernet and a ’73 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay stunned the wine world by beating their French counterparts in a blind tasting.

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