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On Wednesday, April 20, at 11:40 a.m., the Rock Snobs themselves, David Kamp and Steven Daly, will pay a brief visit to The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, that titan of New York City public radio. Be sure to tune in (93.9 FM, 820 AM) and hear Brian snob it up with the boys. No word on whether or not Morning Edition’s mellifluous Soterios Johnson, who actually went to high school with one of the Rock Snobs, will stop by. April 19, 2005 More Rock Snobbery »
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Judgment of Paris. Landmark 1976 blind tasting of French and Californian wines in which the nine judges, all of them French, voted a Napa Valley Chardonnay as the best of the whites and a Napa Cabernet Sauvignon as the best of the reds. The tasting, held in Paris and arranged by a young English wine-shop owner named Steven Spurrier, is considered the signal moment in which California wines “arrived,” thereby paving the way for the state’s oeno-industry boom, an explosion of boutique wineries with the gall to charge $60 for a Petite Syrah, and skyrocketing real-estate prices in Napa and Sonoma that forced locals who’d lived in those counties for generations to move elsewhere. Read more from the Wine Snob's Dictionary » 
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