George M. Taber is
the author of the bestseller Judgment of
Paris, which recounts the story of the famous 1976 event when unknown
California wines defeated top French ones. Taber’s second book, To Cork or Not to Cork, won the Jane
Grigson Award and was a finalist for the James Beard Award. Before turning to
writing books, Taber was a reporter and editor with Time magazine for twenty-one years, based in Bonn, Paris, Houston,
and New York.