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Napa Valley became a player on the international stage in the mid 1970s, when judges in a blind taste test deemed its wine superior to France's.
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In 1976, a British wine merchant invited nine French wine experts to judge a mix of French and Californian wines.
The exhibition was a blind tasting, meaning the tasters would not know the wines' origins as they sampled.
Unexpectedly, Napa Valley’s wines dominated the tasting, something that was considered an upset: France was known for producing the world's best wines, while vintages from California were seen as second-rate.
The upset victory, called the Judgment of Paris, was the catalyst for California being taken seriously by the global wine community.
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