TIL in 1976 there was a wine tasting competition in Paris that blindly compared Californian wines to French wines. California won and the lone reporter covering the event was blacklisted for reporting it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris_%28wine%29



Submitted March 01, 2015 at 01:23AM by garglemymarbles http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2xhmfm/til_in_1976_there_was_a_wine_tasting_competition/