Fifty years after the Judgment of Paris, an American rematch redrew the map: Oregon took the Chardonnay, Mendocino argued with Saumur, and France quietly reclaimed the Cabernet.
WINE EDITORIAL
Friday, October 16, 2026
Fifty years after the Judgment of Paris, an American rematch redrew the map: Oregon took the Chardonnay, Mendocino argued with Saumur, and France quietly reclaimed the Cabernet.
Somewhere around 2011, a generation of American Chardonnay drinkers stopped ordering Chardonnay. The phenomenon had a name, ABC (Anything But…
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