Introduction

6 of us gathered to loosely recreate a "Judgement of Paris" tasting (1 British, 1 Canadian, 1 Singaporean, 1 Korean, 1 French, 1 Hong Kong). 8 wines were included - 4 California / 4 Burgundy. The wines were served single blind in random order. Each person was asked to guess the region & provide a ranking from 1-8 (1 being the best wine & 8 the worst). The lowest scoring wine & region would therefore be declared the "winner". The tasting notes below are from my reflections the day after the tasting when I could retaste the leftovers. The format exactly matched that of a previous Cabernet edition of the tasting.

Flight 1 (4 notes)

Flight 2 (4 notes)

Closing

Key Facts & Figures:
1/ Burgundy "won" the tasting with a score of 87 - 124 reversing the result from the Cabernets.

2/ The wine scores were as follows: Latour (16), Drouhin (23), Fevre / GH (24), Dumol / Heitz (30, Montelena / Shafer (32)

3/ The "best" wine was therefore the Latour-Giraud Meursault 1er Genvrieres. The "worst" wines were the Shafer Red Shoulder Ranch and the Montelena. In fact, all top 4 wines were Burgundy.

4/ Only 1 person preferred California

5/ As a group, we got the region correct 54% of the time. We expected our accuracy to be higher than for Cabernet but were wrong.