George M. Taber
Encyclopedia
George M. Taber is a journalist
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
and cooking, including a Time cover story on chef Michel Guérard
and his nouvelle cuisine
.
It was during that period that he reported on the Judgment of Paris where California wine
s were ranked alongside France’s best, an event that revolutionized the world of wine
. 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."
Taber began his own business newspaper in 1988 and interviewed and wrote about the presidents of both the United States and France.
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
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Taber was a reporter and editor with Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
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
French wine is produced in several regions throughout France, in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year, or 7–8 billion bottles. France has the world's second-largest total vineyard area, behind Spain, and is in the position of being the world's largest wine producer...
and cooking, including a Time cover story on chef Michel Guérard
Michel Guérard
Michel Guérard is a French chef, author, one of the founders of nouvelle cuisine, and the inventor of cuisine minceur.- Biography :...
and his nouvelle cuisine
Nouvelle Cuisine
Nouvelle cuisine is an approach to cooking and food presentation used in French cuisine. By contrast with cuisine classique, an older form of French haute cuisine, nouvelle cuisine is characterized by lighter, more delicate dishes and an increased emphasis on presentation.-History:The term...
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It was during that period that he reported on the Judgment of Paris where California wine
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...
s were ranked alongside France’s best, an event that revolutionized the world of wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
. 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."
Taber began his own business newspaper in 1988 and interviewed and wrote about the presidents of both the United States and France.