Claude Dubois-Millot
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Claude Dubois-Millot was sales director of the Gault Millau
restaurant guide and served as one the eleven judges of the historic Judgment of Paris wine tasting. He was the only judge on the all French panel that did not have previous experience in wine competition
after spending the majority of his career in the automobile industry prior to joining GaultMillau in 1973. Originally his brother, the food critic Christian Millau
, was slated to be on the panel but Claude served as a substitute.
as being an "obviously Californian
" because it had no nose. He later admitted that such confusion did show how far in quality that Californian wines had come.
Gault Millau
Gault et Millau is one of the most influential French restaurant guides founded by two restaurant critics, Henri Gault and Christian Millau in 1965. Gault Millau is most famous for its rating system, on a scale of 1 to 20. Restaurants below 10 points are almost never listed...
restaurant guide and served as one the eleven judges of the historic Judgment of Paris wine tasting. He was the only judge on the all French panel that did not have previous experience in wine competition
Wine competition
A wine competition is an organized event in which trained judges or consumers competitively rate different vintages or bands of wine. There are two types of wine competitions, both of which use blind tasting of wine to prevent bias by the judges....
after spending the majority of his career in the automobile industry prior to joining GaultMillau in 1973. Originally his brother, the food critic Christian Millau
Christian Millau
Christian Millau is a food critic and author. In 1965 he founded the restaurant guide Le Nouveau Guide with Henri Gault and Andre Gayot. He was originally slated to be one of the judges at the historic Judgment of Paris wine tasting event of 1976 but was replaced by his brother Claude...
, was slated to be on the panel but Claude served as a substitute.
Judgment of Paris 1976
During the tasting, Dubois-Millot was noted for proclaiming the Batard-Montrachet Ramonet-PrudhonBatard-Montrachet Ramonet-Prudhon
Domaine Ramonet-Prudhon is a white French Wine producer growing Chardonnay grapes in the Grand Cru vineyard of Batard-Montrachet in Burgundy. Steven Spurrier selected the Batard-Montrachet Ramonet-Prudhon 1973 for the historic Judgment of Paris wine competition, in which it was ranked seventh...
as being an "obviously Californian
California wine
California wine has a long and continuing history, and in the late twentieth century became recognized as producing some of the world's finest wine. While wine is made in all fifty U.S. states, up to 90% of American wine is produced in the state...
" because it had no nose. He later admitted that such confusion did show how far in quality that Californian wines had come.