Huge news in the wine world broke yesterday. Robert Parker, founder of the Wine Advocate and the world’s most influential wine critic, announced plans to sell a portion of the business to three unnamed investors and to step down as editor-in-chief. (Here’s an interview in MarketWatch from last month with good background, with Parker’s assurance […]
A pretty big story broke last week in the world of wine. But you wouldn’t know about unless you read wine blogs. On November 30, Jim Budd published a story on his wine blog Jim’s Loire. In it he includes emails that suggest that Pancho Campo, a well connected wine professional in Spain, was charging […]
Here’s my second installment of Parente on Parker, with me reviewing some of Robert Parker’s picks of the world’s best wine values $25 or less. Today I’m discussing two Pinot Noirs that we definitely do not see agree on. I then suggest two others that are really good and should have been included in his […]
Welcome to a new feature on Work, Wine and Wheels. Periodically I’ll be looking at selections from Robert Parker’s “The World’s Best Wine Values Under $25,” and comparing his notes to mine. It should be fun for me and (I hope) entertaining and informative for my readers. The two wines reviewed below are the 2008 […]