This week's wine selections include four tasty wines from California and two bargain wines from O’Briens

It is now 40 years since the Judgement of Paris when a blind tasting of Napa Valley cabernets and chardonnays scored higher than many famous names from Bordeaux and Burgundy.

The tasting was held to mark the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and what made the French defeat worse was that the judges were almost all French and the creator of the event was a British wine merchant (he owned a shop on Place de la Madeleine).

A fun film was made about the tasting called Bottle-Shock starring the late Alan Rickman.