Napa Valley veterans

Jancis writes On this Fourth of July it seems appropriate to consider three producers whose wines changed how American wine was viewed, and indeed how all of non-European wine has been viewed, ever since the famous Judgment of Paris tasting 40 years ago. 

This was so nearly a non-event. When the young British wine merchant (now not-so-young wine writer) Steven Spurrier decided with his business partner to show some of the new-wave California wines to Parisian wine luminaries in 1976, he decided only just before the event to turn it into...