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http://blindtaste.com/2012/06/13/the-judgment-of-princeton/
Last Friday, nine judges blind-tasted twenty wines, some from France (mostly expensive) and some from New Jersey (mostly cheap), at the author George Taber’s homage to the 1976 California-vs.-France Judgment of Paris. Of those 20, there was just one bottle for which we... can infer to have done better than the others for any reason other than chance alone...
Even that single winning wine—the Drouhin Clos des Mouches 2009, a white Burgundy—was ranked dead last (#10 out of 10) by one of the nine judges, and tied for second-to-last by two others. There was one red wine that seemed to have done worse than the others in a meaningful way—the Four JG’s Cabernet Franc 2008, from New Jersey—but as for the rest, it was an 18-way tie (or, to be more accurate, two nine-way ties). If the entire Judgment of Princeton were replayed, from start to finish, on another day, we wouldn’t even have enough evidence to conclude that any one of those 18 wines would be likely to do better or worse than any other.
...Regardless, the fact that a $500 bottle can’t set itself apart definitively, statistically, from one that costs under $20, even with ten wine experts comparing the two, casts us right back out to Neverland.
All hail the New Jersey wine industry!