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Warren Winiarski, whose Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars played a key role in the 1976 “Judgment of Paris” that established worldwide fame for Napa Valley wines, has died at age 95,
“I’m a wine sitter. I sit with the wine and see what it needs.” California-based winemaker Mike Grgich died on Wednesday at 100.
Mr. Grgich, a Croatian immigrant who considered himself not a wine maker but a wine sitter, leveraged a wine-tasting victory into his own Napa winery.
Miljenko (Mike) Grgich, the Croatian immigrant whose wines helped the Napa Valley rival France’s best as never before, has died at age 100.
The victories Grgich and other Napa winemakers scored over their French counterparts immortalized the event as the "Judgment of Paris," which catapulted high-end California wines into high esteem worldwide.