"James Silverton" wrote in message
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Cooks and Andre are Charmat (tank) process wines and indicate that on the
label but Korbel is fermented in the bottle and is not bad at all, IMHO.
It is a pity that no-one will risk a public blind tasting like the
"Judgment of Paris." The next best thing was Consumer Reports tasting of
California products where the wines produced by French-owned companies
came out at the top.


some time ago (sorry I have not got a reference, but my source was a senior
WSET tutor) a "champagne" tasting in Paris was carried out in two stages:

1. all wines blind - a particular wine came top


2. all wines "open" - the same wine came bottom

the wine in question:

Nyetimber, produced in West Sussex, England
http://www.nyetimber.com/


more info on Nyetimber:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...28/nwine28.xml
http://www.thewinedoctor.com/tasting...lingwine.shtml

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