Welcome to this new season of Wine Stories! For this first episode, I tell you the story of a milestone event in the world of wine. Paris, 1976. A young English wine merchant has invited a group of renowned French experts for a blind tasting of California wines. But what was supposed to be a tasting like any other will become be a turning point in the recent wine history. Come with me for a fascinating story where we’ll come across celebrity wine critics, Marshal Tito’s secret police and a young journalist who happened to be at the right place, at the right time.

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