September 10, 2021

The expression Oenotria means “The Land of Wine.”

Answer: True.

Oenotria was what Greek colonists called southern Italy when they first arrived in the 8^th century BC or thereabouts. The local population was most likely already producing wine.

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“By far the most important thing for me from the [Judgement of Paris tasting], apart from it being a ‘win-win’ for both France and California, as the former was resting on its laurels and needed ‘a kick up the backside’ and the latter needed recognition, was that it created a template whereby little-known wines of quality could be tasted blind alongside well-known wines of quality and if the tasters themselves were of impeccable quality, their judgements would be respected.”

—Steven Spurrier (1941-2021), on the outcome of the famous 1976 tasting of French and California wines he helped orchestrate.

The expression Oenotria means “The Land of Wine.”

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