During the National League baseball playoffs in 1987 between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants, a competition was set up in San Francisco between Missouri's Mount Pleasant Brut versus Domaine Chandon from Napa Valley in Northern California. Five California wine judges were flown in to mediate at the Washington Square Bar &amp; Grill in San Francisco. When the results were tallied Mt. Pleasant won, 56-17 in the blind taste testing. The unexpected victory made national headlines, and one of judges, wine critic Bob Finigan, praised Mount Pleasant in his national newsletter "Robert Finigan's Private Guide to Wines."