George McCaffrey Taber (born May 25, 1942) is a
journalist
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and
entrepreneur
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.
Taber was a reporter and editor with
''Time'' magazine in the United States and Europe for 21 years, working in Brussels; Bonn; Houston; Washington, DC; and New York. Stationed in Paris between 1973 and 1976, he reported extensively on
French wine
French wine is produced all throughout France, in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year, or 7–8 billion bottles. France is one of the largest wine producers in the world, along with Italian, Spanish, and Amer ...
and cooking, including a ''Time'' cover story on chef
Michel Guérard
Michel Guérard (; born 27 March 1933) is a French chef, author, one of the founders of ''nouvelle cuisine'', and the inventor of ''cuisine minceur''.
Early life and education
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and his ''
nouvelle cuisine
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''.
It was during that period that he reported on the
Judgment of Paris
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where
California wine
California wine production has a rich viticulture history since 1680 when
Spanish Jesuit missionaries planted ''Vitis vinifera'' vines native to the Mediterranean region in their established missions to produce wine for religious services. I ...
s were ranked alongside France's best, an event that revolutionized the world of
wine
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. His four-paragraph story about the tasting has been called "the most significant news story ever written about wine". In 2005, Taber wrote a book on the event, with the goal of "setting the record straight".
[ Ashenfelter, Orley. Review of Taber's book a]
Liquid Assets
Retrieved July 19, 2009.
In 2012, Taber organized a blind tasting on behalf of the
American Association of Wine Economists similar to the 1976 Judgment of Paris event between
wines produced in France and
several produced in New Jersey. This event at the association's conference in Princeton has been called the
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.
Taber began his own business newspaper in 1988 and interviewed and wrote about the presidents of both the United States and France.
Bibliography
*Taber, George M
"Modern Living: Judgement of Paris" ''
Time
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'', June 7, 1976.
*Taber, George M. ''Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine''. New York: Scribner, 2005.
*Taber, George M. ''To Cork or Not To Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle''. New York: Scribner, 2007.
See also
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List of wine personalities
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References
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American male journalists
Living people
1942 births
Time (magazine) people