[WINE] [CALIFORNIA] National Wine Festival ("Special Wine Edition" of the St. Helena Star Newspaper for Thursday, October 27, 1966) by [Various authors] - 1966

St. Helena, California: St. Helena Star, 1966. First Edition. Newspaper. Very good +. 2 large volumes in newspaper format, each 8 leaves. In very good or slightly better condition, printed on brittle newsprint, and with some light tearing at the folds, but overall clean and well-preserved. A fantastic snapshot of the California wine scene in 1966; apparently the inaugural year of this (short-lived?) wine festival. Articles and advertisements discuss Mondavi, Krug, Beringer, and other vintners, some of which had been maing wine for a century, others of which were just getting off the ground. The famous "Judgment of Paris," the wine competition held in Paris in which a California wine won in each category, would not happen for another decade, and so the California winemaking world at this time, while long-lived, was much sleepier and less competitive than it is today. This supplement to the St. Helena Star, the local paper, is scarce in commerce; OCLC records full runs of the newspaper at several libraries in California wine country, though this issue is not separately catalogued. A great piece of California wine ephemera.