IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/jwecon/v17y2022i2p159-166_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Tracking the wines of the Judgment of Paris over time: The case of Stag's Leap Wine Cellars’ Cabernet Sauvignon

Author

Listed:
  • Gergaud, Olivier
  • Ginsburgh, Victor
  • Moreno-Ternero, Juan D.

Abstract

The outcome of the famous 1976 Judgment of Paris, a blind wine tasting of ten wines by nine French judges, brought American wines to the forefront of the wine business. A Californian wine, the 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon, was declared the winner, surpassing four highly prized French wines (Château Mouton-Rothschild 1970, Château Montrose 1970, Château Haut-Brion 1970, and Château Léoville Las Cases 1971). We collect ratings from experts for (almost) all vintages of the same ten wines over the years 1968–2021 and find that the Stag's Leap Cabernet Sauvignon is far from being first. We conclude that either the 1973 vintage was overrated by the experts who tasted it in 1976, or 1973 was merely an outlier in this winery.

Suggested Citation

  • Gergaud, Olivier & Ginsburgh, Victor & Moreno-Ternero, Juan D., 2022. "Tracking the wines of the Judgment of Paris over time: The case of Stag's Leap Wine Cellars’ Cabernet Sauvignon," Journal of Wine Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 17(2), pages 159-166, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jwecon:v:17:y:2022:i:2:p:159-166_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1931436122000220/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:jwecon:v:17:y:2022:i:2:p:159-166_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/jwe .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.