The Great Chardonnay Showdown, held in the spring of 1980, was organized by Craig Goldwyn, the wine columnist for the Chicago Tribune newspaper and the founder of the Beverage Testing Institute, with help from three Chicago wine stores. A total of 221 Chardonnays from around the world were selected for the blind wine competition. Chardonnay is a green-skinned Grape variety used to make white Wine. A wine competition is an organized event in which trained judges or consumers competitively rate different vintages or bands of wine France and California were heavily represented, but entries from many countries around the world were included.
"Five panels of five judges each first selected 19 finalists. Then ten of the original judges reviewed the finalists a second time. " The winning wine was the Grgich Hills Wine Cellar Sonoma County Chardonnay 1977, which was the new winery's very first vintage. Grgich Hills Estate (formerly Grgich Hills Cellar) is a Winery located in Rutherford, California in the heart of the Napa Valley. Vintage, in Wine -making is the process of picking Grapes and creating the finished product It was declared the best Chardonnay in the world.
The winemaker was Mike Grgich, who had earlier made the Chateau Montelena that won first place among white wines at the historic Judgment of Paris wine competition. Mike Grgich (born Miljenko Grgić on) is a Croatian - American Winemaker. Chateau Montelena is a Napa Valley Winery most famous for winning the white wine section of the historic "Judgement of Paris" Wine competition The Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 or the Judgment of Paris was a Wine competition organized in Paris on 24 May 1976 by Steven Spurrier, a British A wine competition is an organized event in which trained judges or consumers competitively rate different vintages or bands of wine
Another major Chardonnay wine competition was the Grand European Jury Wine Tasting of 1997. In the Grand European Jury Wine Tasting of 1997, the Grand Jury Européen, consisting entirely of European judges conducted a Blind tasting of 27 Chardonnays
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- French Wine Producers and Consumers
- Taber, George M. A wine competition is an organized event in which trained judges or consumers competitively rate different vintages or bands of wine California wine is Wine made in the US state of California. Nearly three-quarters the size of France, California accounts for nearly 90 French wine is produced in several regions throughout France, on over 800000 Hectares (over 2 million Acres of Vineyards and in a typical A Bordeaux wine is any Wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France. History Wine has been traded internationally since ancient times Judgment of Paris: California vs France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine. NY: Scribner, 2005.
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