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Unidentified Appellation (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
I’m not going to feign any insight to Robert Parker’s feelings about Manfred Krankl’s wines. I don’t claim to have the most intimate or exhaustive experience w/ the famed ‘cult of cults’ from Ventura, California either….but hey, I’m a geek, and I’d have to be completely oblivious to ignore the ‘Sine Qua Non effect’ that began w/ a few enthusiastic reviews, and now has steamrolled into the stuff that...
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Ed Levine Eats (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Despite being on Gordon Ramsay's show last week, the Black Pearl has closed [Eater] Two new 'wichcrafts opened today in Herald and Greeley Squares [NYM] Wine critic Robert Parker has called for a boycott of all restaurants that unfairly jack...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
FAMED wine critic Robert Parker has called for a boycott of restaurants that unfairly jack up their wine prices. "The consumer should rebel and avoid exorbitant wine prices, no matter how sublime the cuisine. This is nothing more or less than a...
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Celebrate Wine (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Whether you always agree with him or not, there's little denying that Robert Parker, Jr. has had a tremendous influence on wine buying. The author and publisher of "The Wine Advocate" for over 25 years has won countless awards, including being appointed a "Chevalier dans l'Ordre de la Legion d'Honneur" in France. He created the now widely-used 100-point wine ranking system and has written extensively...
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LENNDEVOURS (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Writer David Schildknecht has reviewed some New York wines for the August issue of Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, with several wines scoring well once again. You may remember that Schildknecht rated many Long Island wines highly a couple years ago,...
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Vinography (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
In the circles of wine lovers I travel in, many folks make a common observation about the evolving landscape of wine criticism. Namely that the era of Robert M. Parker, Jr. is coming to a close, and a new world of wine critics are emerging. I'm not sure I'd personally describe what I see happening in the wine world in quite those terms, but it's clear that Parker has been doing some succession planning...
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Avenue Vine (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
A wrinkled nose from Robert Parker, a masterly American wine critic, used to be enough to send wine prices down deeper than the Bordeaux cellars where he does his tasting. The popular grape-based alcoholic drink is developing as an asset class, and investors have started to trade derivative products in the form of en primeur, a type of wine future. But a new breed of rich investors and wine drinkers...
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VinoFictions (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
You know that something’s afoot in the wine world when wine geeks start touting the selection at their local Costco. This happened a few weeks ago on the Robert Parker forum Web site. That came as a surprise to me. I never would have thought that wine geeks of the magnitude that post on that [...]
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PoppingCorks.com (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Mclaren_jk posted a review: This is a top-notch wine; it's premier grand cru classe (level B) of Saint Emilion; I was really looking forward to cracking it open. In the event, it was even better than I had anticipated. Eminent wine critic Robert Parker gave this vintage 96/100 and while I'm no accolyte of the man, it's good to know I own something that is held in high regard. The nose was strong with...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Bordeaux starts to look a bit bubbly A WRINKLED nose from Robert Parker, a masterly American wine critic, used to be enough to send wine prices down deeper than the Bordeaux cellars where he does his tasting. The popular grape-based alcoholic drink is developing as an asset class, and investors have started to trade derivative products in the form of en primeur, a type of wine future. But a new breed...
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Serious About Wine (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Oenophiles mark your calendars for October 23: wine mystic Robert Parker will host an exclusive tasting featuring Bordeaux wines from 2005, what Parker says is "the greatest vintage produced during my thirty year career." For $2,000 per person ($1,000 of which is a charitable donation toward Culinary Institute scholarships), tasters will sample 18 wines, [...]
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Luxurylaunches.com (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Wine testing has been the craze of the century that has stimulated the taste buds of some of the best in the business. If you have a taste for the same then make sure that you don’t give this even a miss. Robert Parker, a renowned wine taster is organizing a wine tasting marathon on the 23rd of October this year. This will be exclusively based on tests of Bordeaux wines. If you think that this will...
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Luxist (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Filed under: Wine Oenophiles mark your calendars for October 23: wine mystic Robert Parker will host an exclusive tasting featuring Bordeaux wines from 2005, what Parker says is "the greatest vintage produced during my thirty year career." For $2,000 per person ($1,000 of which is a charitable donation toward Culinary Institute scholarships), tasters will sample 18 wines, including all five of the...
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The East Bay Business Times (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Robert Parker, the hugely influential wine writer and critic, will host an Oct. 23 Napa Valley seminar and wine tasting featuring the chance to sip premier 2005 vintage Bordeaux wines, which Parker has hailed as "the greatest vintage produced during my 30-year career."
