The “Judgment” is a new kind of international blind tasting competition, inspired by the 1976 Judgment of Paris, to be held in its first edition in May 2018 in Davis, California: the 2026 Judgment of Davis, organized in conjunction with the the 2026 Vine to Mind Symposium, co-hosted by the Harvard Data Science Initiative and the Robert Mondavi Institute Center for Wine Economics of the University of California, Davis.
The Judgment Committee, organizing and overseeing the 2026 Judgment of Davis, consists of faculty from UC Davis and Harvard University, listed in alphabetical order, includes:
Jen Cortellini, Harvard Data Science Initiative
Xiao-Li Meng, Department of Statistics, Harvard University; Harvard Data Science Initiative
Ben Montpetit, Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis
In future years, Judgments will be held in other locations around the world.