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...Back then, New World v Old World was a big preoccupation, with California the first successful representative of the former, thanks to the seminal Judgment of Paris taste-off in 1976, which pitted California...
...The fact that 90 per cent of all Chardonnay is deeply dull should not diminish our respect for Domaine de la Romanée-Conti’s Montrachet....
...My colleague Steven Spurrier was spurned by the French wine establishment for years after he organised the famous California v France tasting in Paris in 1976....
...Later, standing in the Palazzo’s forecourt, Morari told me that Federico and Charles V had played tennis here during the latter’s visit. “Can you imagine playing tennis with Charles V?”...
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