Michael Austin, Author at Valley News

For the 40th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris, we tasted the current vintages of the winning wines. The 2013 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay is a crisp clean wine, full of lemon, green apple, orange zest and a whiff of anise all wrapped in pleasant minerality. The 2013 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon is silky and layered with plum, cherry, tobacco, leather and a lingering hint of cocoa. (Michael Tercha/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Revisiting the Wines of the ‘Judgment of Paris’ 40 Years Later

by Michael Austin Chicago TribuneMay 24, 2016

Some gifts last a lifetime, and the French have given us at least two of those. The first one, the Statue of Liberty, was dedicated in 1886, and went on to become our unofficial national symbol. That gift was deliberate. They said, “Here have…

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Revisiting the Wines of the ‘Judgment of Paris’ 40 Years Later

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