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Stackstone Grille
Restaurant, LLC
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To:
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All
Wait Staff
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From:
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Restaurateur Name Here
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CC:
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Larry
Jenkins, Restaurant Manager
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Date:
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1/9/2015
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Re:
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Staff
Training – The American Wine Industry, the 1976 Paris Judgment
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Comments:
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The
discussion of the training on the American wine industry: the 1976 Judgment
of Paris which had actually put the American wine industry on the map as the
top wine producing country.
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The 1976 Paris tasting which is known as the (Judgment
of Paris), had started a revolutionary effect which was described by Barbara
Ensrud of the Wall Street Journal “Like a
vinous shot heard around the world”. In this brief description in the memo,
the training will conduct a training understanding the American wine industry
and the how we became and still today known as the top wine producer in the
world. Having the knowledge of this when serving help put as experts of what we
serve with our cuisines.
On May 24, 1976, this wine tasting in Paris had
changed the world’s views on California wines forever. The tasting was held by
Steven Spurrier, an English wine merchant who owned a wine shop and also a wine
school in the center of Paris. Spurrier loved the California Cabernets and the
Chardonnays that was brought by his shop by his student. He arranged a blind
taste test to put the California wine against the French wine since they came
from the same grapes to see how they will be compared up to the French.
The Cabernet Sauvignon was the top-ranked over
the Bordeaux, which had the best four top ranking. The Chateau Montelena
Chardonnay of 1973 from California beat out it French counterparts. The French
didn’t like this still today. A taste
test was done again 30 years later and the California wines are today is
considered the best in the world beating out again the French wines.
California wines that ranked by the judges was as follow;
Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars 1973, Napa Valley (Ranked 1)
Freemark Abbey Winery 1969 (Ranked 2)
Ridge Vineyard Monte Bello, 1971 (Ranked 1 and 2)
Heitz Wine Cellars Martha’s Vineyard, 1970 (Ranked 1)
In the training we will go more in-depth with on why these
wines are still considered the best in the world and the why the America wine
industry beat out French wine industry.
References
Stag’s
Leap Wine Cellars, (2014). THE 1976
PARIS TASTING. Retrieved from:
Slate
Wine’s World. May 24, 2006. By: Mike Steinberger. The Judgment of Paris –
What
the French didn’t learn from the legendary wine tasting. Retrieved from: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/wines_world/2006/05/the_judgment_of_paris.html.
About
Food. (2015). By: Stacy Slinkard, Wine Expert. The 1976 Paris Wine Tasting –
The
Judgment
of Paris. How The Reining Queen of the
Wine World was Dethroned by Her Own. Retrieved from: http://wine.about.com/od/historyandculture/a/The-1976-Paris-Wine-Tasting-The-Judgment-Of-Paris.htm.
