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Napa Valley announced itself at the 1976 'Judgment of Paris', when California wines beat top French bottles in a blind tasting. Today it's the New World's most famous (and priciest) home of Cabernet Sauvignon.
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The Napa Cabernet style
Warm days and a long season give ripe, full-bodied, plush Cabernet: pure black fruit, vanilla and mocha from generous oak, softer acidity and higher alcohol than Bordeaux.