The Judgment of Paris-winning Napa winery is coming to dinner in Hong Kong

In May 1976, the wine world’s axis tilted. At a blind tasting in Paris – later immortalised as the Judgment of Paris – a panel of French judges unwittingly dismantled the myth of Gallic invincibility. The weapon of choice? A 1973 Chardonnay from Château Montelena. When the scores were tallied, this upstart Californian bottle had bested the finest white Burgundies, including a Meursault Charmes and a Bâtard-Montrachet. It was the “shot heard round the world”, a moment that transformed the Napa...