1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon
date: label: Date made
content: 1973
name: label: referenced
content: Spurrier, Steven
label: owner
content: Winiarski, Warren
label: referenced
content: Stag's Leap Wine Cellars
label: maker
content: Winiarski, Warren
notes: label: Description
content: This bottle of 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon wine was made by Warren Winiarski, founder, owner, and winemaker at Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, in Napa, California. It is the wine that outranked the best reds of France at a blind tasting held in Paris in 1976.
label: Description
content: Organized by Steven Spurrier, an English wine merchant, and his American business partner Patricia Gallagher, the tasting involved a panel of nine experienced French judges, all experts in food and wine. Without knowing the identities of the wines, they ranked a select group of whites and reds from France and California. The results were shocking and controversial: wines made by a new generation of winemakers in California outscored the best of France in both categories.
label: Description
content: The "Judgment of Paris" had a tremendous impact on the California and U.S. wine industries. It crushed the widely-held belief that only the French could make fine wine and inspired American vintners to expand their operations. The aftermath of the tasting played out most vigorously in California, where, between 1975 and 2004, the number of wineries grew from 330 to 1,689. By 2004, California accounted for most of the $643 million in annual U.S. wine exports.
label: Description
content: After the Paris tasting, Warren Winiarski, the maker of the 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon, expanded his vineyard and winery operations. Even after selling SLWC in 2007, he continued growing grapes at his Arcadia Vineyards in the Napa Valley up to the time of his death in 2024 at age 96.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: California, Napa
label: referenced
content: United States: California, Napa
label: referenced
content: United States: California
topic: label: Subject
content: Wine
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
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content: Food
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content: National Treasures exhibit
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revoluntionized Wine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Warren Winiarski
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0029.01
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0029.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0029
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle of wine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 3 in; 30.48 cm x 7.62 cm