Jersey wine? You're kidding me, right?
Blind tastings and wine challenges are nothing new these days. I get a couple of news releases a month detailing the latest faceoff between wines from various regions, and we even did one in April at DrinkLocalWine between Colorado and California.
So what makes this event, a blind tasting between wines from France and New Jersey, worth writing about? First, one of the organizers was George Taber, the only reporter present at the Judgment of Paris in 1976, the tasting that has become the model for everything since. Second, lots of people did write about it, which shows how far wine ? and regional wine ? has come. Third, the New Jersey wines held their own, which surprised more than a few people. More after the jump: