Clos Du Val Winery
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Clos Du Val Winery was founded by two men who were born into the French wine business, John Goelet and Bernard Portet. After scouting the world for two years to locate areas where they might produce Bordeaux-style wine, Porter identified the then-undiscovered Stag’s Leap section of California’s Napa Valley as especially promising.
Goelet bought 150 acres and established the winery in 1972. The next year he bought 180 acres in the Carneros area. The winery received international recognition when its first vintage of Cabernet Sauvignon (1972) was selected for competition in the historic Paris Wine Tasting of 1976.
In the French Culinary Institute Wine Tasting of 1986, conducted on the tenth anniversary of the Paris tasting, eight judges blind tasted nine of the ten wines evaluated earlier to evaluate how well thay had aged. White wines were not evaluated in the belief that they were past their prime. Clos Du Val Winery won first place, beating all French competitors: Château Montrose, Château Léoville-Las Cases, Château Mouton Rothschild, and Château Haut-Brion. These are among the most prestigious wines produced in France.
See also
Sources
- Taber, George M. Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that revolutionized wine. NY: Scribner, 2005.
- Clos Du Val Winery
