TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Judgment of Paris -- Jun. 7, 1976

TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Judgment of Paris -- Jun. 7, 1976: "Americans abroad have been boasting for years about California wines, only to be greeted in most cases by polite disbelie ... or worse. Among the few fervent and respected admirers of le vin de Californie in
France is a transplanted Englishman, Steven Spurrier, 34, who owns the
Cave de la Madeleine wine shop, one of the best in Paris, and the
Academic du Vin, a wine school whose six-week courses are attended by
the French Restaurant Association's chefs and sommeliers. Last week in
Paris, at a formal wine tasting organized by Spurrier, the unthinkable
happened: California defeated all Gaul...."