Xiao Yifei felt that she was talking nonsense: "Sister, you will also brag, the 5 top estates in Bordeaux, the price of that wine is not ordinarily expensive, Napa has never heard of it being so expensive." ”

"Is that because you are unheard of, do you know the 'Paris Judgment'?"

Xiao Yifei really didn't know: "What's it?" World War II? ”

Wang Nan asked, "The Trojan one?" ”。

This can't be blamed on these two, Shirley used English, and what she just said was "Judgement_of_Paris", which literally means the Paris Trial, Xiao Yifei thought it was a trial of Nazi prisoners of war in World War II, but he didn't seem to have heard of any trials held in Paris after World War II, only the Nuremberg Trial and the Tokyo Trial.

And Wang Nan obviously knows some Greek mythological stories, and knows that the fuse of the Trojan War in Greek mythology is "Judgement_of_Paris". This paris is not a place name, but a personal name, which we generally translate as Paris, and this word is translated as Paris Judgment.

In Greek mythology, the famous Trojan War was fought for Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, and the reason why Helen eloped with the Trojan prince was because of Paris's judgment, and Paris's judgment was caused by the "Golden Apple Incident". These three stories are intimately linked.

The story begins with a wedding feast, the wedding banquet of Peleus, the hero of the world, and Thetis, the goddess of the sea. Since the marriage was directly brokered by the god Zeus, a group of god-level gods were invited to the banquet at that time. Eris, the goddess in charge of the dispute, was not invited, which made her think too highly of herself to stand it, so she decided to do it. Uninvited, she left a huge and gorgeous golden apple engraved with "To the Most Beautiful Goddess" at the banquet and floated away.

We have an idiom called "two peaches kill three soldiers", this Eris is worthy of being the goddess of disputes, she has achieved "one peach kills three soldiers". Just such a golden apple involved the three goddesses with the highest god level and the most beautiful goddess present: Athena, the goddess of wisdom, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and Hera, the queen of heaven, all involved in a dispute, and they asked Zeus to judge who could get the golden apple. This is the "Golden Apple Incident".

Zeus refused to offend people, so he said that Paris, a dashing and talented prince in the mortal world, was more suitable to be the judge of this difficult problem. So the three goddesses approached Paris and promised him some good, hoping that Paris would say that he was the most beautiful. Hera promised him a king; Athena promised to make him the smartest person possible; Aphrodite promised him to marry the most beautiful woman in Greece and depicted to him the beauty of Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta.

In the end, Paris gave the golden apple, which symbolized the "most beautiful goddess", to Aphrodite, the goddess of love, because Paris felt that he would definitely inherit his father's throne in the future and would have become a king, and wisdom was actually not very useful for a king, so the love of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, was just for the appetite of young people. This is the "Paris Judgment".

Eros gets the golden apple, and she keeps her promise to give Paris the love of Helen. But at this time, Helen was the wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta, so this hatred of taking his wife led to the Trojan War.

The war lasted 10 years. In the course of the war, Paris was killed by Menelaus with a poisoned arrow, and Paris's brother Deifopos got Helen. In the end of the war, of course, the attack side won with the well-known "Trojan Horse", and Troy fell. Menelaus returned to Greece with his wife, Helen.

In the Trojan War, there was also a famous phrase, "Achilles' heel", used to describe the Achilles heel of man.

Obviously, Xiao Yifei and Wang Nan's answers were wrong, and they didn't even get along. Shirley was too lazy to talk nonsense, took out the tablet, tinkered with it for a while, and handed it directly to Xiao Yifei.

"Judgement_of_Paris" generally translates to Paris Judgment. To put it simply, get a few bottles of French wine, including Bordeaux reds, Burgundy whites, and California reds and whites. Then the red and white sides played against each other, and found a few wine tasting experts to blindly evaluate, that is, they did not show the experts the information about the origin and winery, and then scored them one by one.

This happened in 1976, and everyone thought that of course the famous French wine would win, but it turned out to be a surprise to everyone: the first white wine competition was announced, and the first place was Monterena Winery in California. The subsequent red wine competition was also won by California's Deer Leap Winery.

The result was a surprise to everyone, and in an instant California wines became famous and prices skyrocketed. Some people may think that the best wineries in the United States must be compared to the bad wineries in Bordeaux, but you are mistaken.

Bordeaux were represented by Chateaum Outon Rothschild (also known as Château Bell) and Château de Haute-Briand

Haut-Brion) (also known as Château Rougé, Château Haut-Brion), these two are often heard of together with Lafite, Latour, and Margaux wineries, and are called the five famous Châteaux of Bordeaux, which are the top wineries in Bordeaux, ranking the first level of classified wineries, and they are not for sale in France. Therefore, the French side can be described as strong.

And the United States is much worse. California wine has indeed been made since the 80s of the 19th century, but just after it started to improve, it was hit by the San Francisco earthquake, Prohibition, the economic crisis, World War II, and phylloxia. These small wineries in Napa, California, have been ravaged by natural disasters** in turn, and the catastrophe is not enough to describe their tragic situation. Not long after recovering from the 50s, the technology has not yet been practiced, and the name has not yet been made, so I rushed into battle.

Because it happened to be the 200th anniversary of the founding of the United States, the Paris judgment was initially perceived by the Americans as a complication to them. Fortunately, these rookies actually knocked the French giant to the ground and achieved a remarkable result.

One might question the judges' questions.

It is true that this Paris judge was organized by a British businessman, Steven, and the wine was also chosen by him, and the judges were also invited by him, and it seems that he did have the conditions to cheat.

But in fact, the judges were all French, including Raymondoliver, a veteran French culinary writer, Claude Dubois-millot, a business director of the French gaultmillau food travel guide, and Jean-claude, the owner of a three-Michelin-starred hotel

There are 9 people including Vrinat and Christian Vanneque, sommelier.

These people are probably the biggest judges Steven could ever invite. Although Steven and his female assistant also tasted and scored the wine, their scores were not added to the statistics.

And it was a blind tasting competition, all the wines were put into the same bottle, and the corresponding variety of each bottle was actually known by only one person, and that person was Georgem, a reporter from the French office of Time magazine, who covered the tasting. Taber。

Some people may think that this reporter is a ghost, but in fact, Steven invited reporters from many French newspapers, but none of them were interested in participating, so it should be said that Steven did not know that those media would come until the last minute, so it does not make sense to use reporters to make ghosts.

Crucially, many people have since conducted similar tastings, and the conclusions are skewed, but as the judges who attended, said, "It's hard to tell the difference between California and France." ”

Seeing that Xiao Yifei had finished reading it, Shirley took the tablet and tinkered with it for a while, and handed it to Xiao Yifei.

In 2006, 30 years after the first Parisian jury, there was another grand judging, because no one would keep white wines that long, so only red wines were judged, and the participants were still the red wines of these vintages, and Bordeaux lost even more. Anyway, the second, third, and fourth places that year were still French wines, but this time the top 5 were all Californian wines.

Thinking of the disaster encountered by Napa Winery before, it can really be said that "the sky will descend on the people, and they must first work hard and work their muscles and bones." ”

Of course, it may happen that California is a good vintage and Bordeaux is a bad vintage, but if the vintage is bad, the wines of these wineries are cheaper? Apparently impossible. And this at least shows a little bit that in some years, California wines are better than Bordeaux wines.

The Paris judgment is significant, and the wine is divided into the New World and the Old World, the Old World refers to the European countries that produce wine, such as France, Italy, Spain, Germany, etc., who have been making wine since hundreds of years ago, and they, especially Bordeaux, France, have always been synonymous with wine.

The New World refers to the countries that later made wine, such as the United States, Chile, Australia, South Africa, and including China. The wines of these countries were imported from Europe with various reasons such as immigrants, and they were made for a short time, without so many traditions to follow, and made a lot of use of new technologies and processes.

The Parisian judges can be said to have greatly boosted the confidence of New World wines, and for the first time they discovered that the opponent they had to worship was now won by them; They also make some of the best wines in the world.

Since 2004, inspired by the Parisian judges, the famous Chilean winery Errazuriz has organized wine tastings around the world every year, and since it was held in Berlin in 04, it is called the Berlin Wine Tasting. The Berlin tasting will feature 2 wines from Irazú, as well as 4 Chilean, 6 Bordeaux and 4 Italian wines. Among them, Bordeaux's wine has five famous wineries, such as Lafite, Latour, and Margaux.

This Berlin tasting has been held in other continents, in London, Toronto, Tokyo, and even in Beijing a month before the '08 Olympics.

In so many tastings, not all the five famous wineries have won the championship, and Irazou's wine ranking is not bad, and it has won the championship once.

Wang Nan was very dissatisfied when he saw that Shirley only showed the tablet to Xiao Yifei:

"Hey, I haven't seen it yet. Shirley, you're a friend of all sex. ”

Xiao Yifei read the information and said to Shirley very formally:

"Shirley, no matter where I decide to plant in the end, I still want to thank you for the information."

Wang Nan said a word next to him: "She wants you to go to California, so she will stay with you for a long time." ”

This sentence completely annoyed Shirley, and the two girls began to make a fuss in the back seat.