Tasted 30 years later: They're alive!

California wines age as well as the French.

Read this article Tasted 30 years later: They're alive! California wines trumped French wines yet again in a Judgment of Paris II, where some of the world's top wine experts chose California wines as the top five vintages.

The event commemorated a 1976 tasting in which the same wines were tasted and California surprisingly won top honors.