Upstart Niagara wine beats world's best

Thirty-three years ago, the wine world was shocked when some audacious California wines beat out their highbrow French counterparts in a taste test called the Judgment of Paris.

Now, in a re-creation of that major upset, Le Clos Jordanne's Claystone Terrace 2005, an elegant Chardonnay from an upstart Niagara winery, has bested the world's most treasured wines at the Judgment of Montreal. The feat is akin to a precocious child winning a place among the Nobel elite.

Further sweetening the result is the fact the judges thought they were judging only French and California wines. The Niagara wine was among a handful of "pirates" snuck into the test.