Iconic Napa Valley winemaker Warren Winiarski's legendary Stag's Leap Cabernet Sauvignon bested French domaines in a 1976 blind tasting. The tasting became known as the Judgment of Paris, and it secured California wines' place on the world stage.
Warren Winiarski, whose 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon turned the wine world upside down by winning the famous ”Judgment of Paris” tasting in 1976, has died at the age of 95. Winiarski was a liberal arts lecturer at the University of Chicago when his wine interest bloomed into an obsession. This coincided with the emergence of the Napa Valley as a source for fine wine, and Winiarski headed west to join the movement.
, would benefit from this altruism, receiving his first industry internship from Winiarski in 1999. He was immediately struck by the culture at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. This was “expressed in the level of thoughtfulness and intelligent articulation brought to every decision.
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