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The movie was about the historic Paris wine tasting of 1976, in which a number of California red and white wines were tasted blind.
The jury of nine tasters consisted of the creme de la creme of France's wine tasting experts. First to be tasted were white wines. The comparison was with Chardonnay - matching the very best French Chardonnays (Burgundy) against California Chardonnays. The winner was a California Chardonnay, to the shock of all present. Third and fourth place also went to Californian Chardonnays.
The red wines were then tasted. The organizer of the event, a merchant of French wines, knew that the California white had won and panicked. Desperately hoping the French would win this round, he admits he informed the judges that not only had they chosen a Californian wine for the top prize, but that three out of four of the top whites had been Californian. Since many wine drinkers consider red wines to be of even more importance than white, the French tasters were even more determined to choose a French red for the winner this time around.
The tasting then continued. The tasters, sure they could pick out the wineries, began to make disparaging remarks about some of the "lesser quality US wines." When the results were unveiled a California wine had again won top honors, to the chagrin of the wine experts. One of the judges actually demanded unsuccessfully that her ballot be given back to her.
One observer has emphasized that
It wasn't just that the California wines took first place in each category, but that they placed so many wines in the upper echelon of each category. It was so utterly improbable that skilled French tasters, suckled on Bordeaux red and white Burgundies, should not only fail to recognize their own wines, but actually express so strong and concerted a preference for those of the New World.
The French tried to prevent publicity of the results, but the organizer had invited a reporter for Time magazine to the event, who promptly revealed the results to the world. Leaders of the of French wine industry were so outraged they banned the organizer from the nation's prestige wine-tasting tour for a year as punishment for the damage his prestigious tasting had done to its former image of superiority.
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What is the movie Bottle Shock about?
The 2008 movie "Bottle Shock" is a comedy about a 1976 wine competition nicknamed "Judgement of Paris" where California wines competed against French wines in a blind taste test and California wines won.
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