Stags’ Leap’s Christophe Paubert
by Malcolm Jolley Christophe Paubert has brought a Gallic sensibility to Napa Valley’s famed...
Read Moreby | May 18, 2011 | Good Food TV | 0
by Malcolm Jolley Christophe Paubert has brought a Gallic sensibility to Napa Valley’s famed...
Read Moreby Jamie Drummond | Dec 9, 2010 | Good Food Culture | 0
Earlier this year two of Good Food Revolution’s less-than-covert operatives went into the field for a mission deep inside the dangerous territory of Californian Wine Country (well, Napa and Sonoma anyway) They came back with tasting notes of bottlings both famous and infamous, and a barrel full of tales about their adventures… This is their story…
Read Moreby | Jun 30, 2010 | Good Food Events | 0
On May 24, 1976, a wine tasting took place in Paris that changed the world’s view of California wines forever. The tasting was the brainchild of Steven Spurrier, an English wine merchant who owned an innovative wine shop and adjacent wine school in the center of Paris. The unthinkable happened. The 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon – the first vintage produced with grapes from vines a mere three years old – was judged the best. The Cabernet had bested four top-ranked Bordeaux, including first-growths Château Mouton-Rothschild and Château Haut-Brion. The 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay from California bested its French counterparts. In honour of this historical achievement the Profile Wine group will be holding a Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Dinner next Wednesday July 7 at the Harbour 60 Steak House in Toronto.
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