USA 1 France 0 - i'm soo gutted
Oh nooooo it can't be true :-(
Wine competition pits France v US
The US has emerged victorious in a blind tasting by experts in London and California pitting US and French wine against each other.
The contest recreated a tasting 30 years ago in which France was defeated after French experts decided wines from California were better that year.
The result was seen as a blow to French national pride and shocked the country's wine industry.
In recent years, new world wines have overtaken global sales of French wine.
The tasting took place at two locations.
One tasting was in London at the Berry Brothers and Rudd wine shop in St James's Street - one of the UK's oldest wine and spirits merchants.
The US tasting was held at Copia, the US centre for wine, food and the arts, in the Napa Valley, California, a region famous for its wine production.
Nine judges there sampled ten unlabelled glasses of decades-old wines.
The combined scores from both panels gave victory to wines from California's Napa Valley.
A 1971 Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet from Napa received the highest praise.
Someone must've been cheeting
Wine competition pits France v US
The US has emerged victorious in a blind tasting by experts in London and California pitting US and French wine against each other.
The contest recreated a tasting 30 years ago in which France was defeated after French experts decided wines from California were better that year.
The result was seen as a blow to French national pride and shocked the country's wine industry.
In recent years, new world wines have overtaken global sales of French wine.
The tasting took place at two locations.
One tasting was in London at the Berry Brothers and Rudd wine shop in St James's Street - one of the UK's oldest wine and spirits merchants.
The US tasting was held at Copia, the US centre for wine, food and the arts, in the Napa Valley, California, a region famous for its wine production.
Nine judges there sampled ten unlabelled glasses of decades-old wines.
The combined scores from both panels gave victory to wines from California's Napa Valley.
A 1971 Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet from Napa received the highest praise.
Someone must've been cheeting
posted by Damiel | 10:35 AM
6 Comments:
Thanks for your visit and the things you said.
Do you know the "Le pure cafe" in paris?
Worth a visit?
As you know-will be in paris soon. Did you write the book: one yoear in the merde?
Let's stay in touch!
candy
I have no idea where the 'pure café' is - Paree is a pretty big place.
I don't know who wrote 'one year in the Merde' ... but the guy also wrote a year in province which was top of the best sellers list for some time.
When you come over, you should check out Montmartre - it's where they filmed 'Amelie'
Hi. I just read some more of you really witty (funny) posts.
So first believe me I don't need pro help.
Second: what do you do for a living - sounds interesting...
Third: would you like to meet for a half fat decaf cap in paris :)
And... I'm not irish, english or french....
Would be nice to meet someone in my age in paris.
And I'm not single and not lookin ( one of my friens told me to tell you that I'm not going to use you as a aliud for the idiot that fooled me around):)
I thought I could be funny after all I read on your blog...
Greetings candy
Hi,
I'm just ticking boxes off from your list ....hmmm
I work for a professionnal training services firm - it sounds a lot cooler than it is i s'pose, but i do meet some interesting people.
I caaaaaan't stand decaf - it's akin to drinking alcohol free beer. What's the point in that, eh ?!
Hi,
there's no list or at least there shouldn't be one....
I do hate decaf, too. But it's pretty posh... that's what I've been told in london lately.
I do love caf latte, red wine, whisky and beer (beer- only in irish pubs).
How about you?
Why not send me a message using the little envelope thing to the left of the 'print' and 'link' icons ....
I don't really visit my blog, since i spend ages trying to get looking about half decent ;-)
Any how ... i drink pretty much anything, though not too excess ... at the moment i've got a thing for Belgian beer
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