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Robert McDowell Parker Jr. (born July 23, 1947) is a retired American wine critic. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate are influential in American wine buying and are therefore a major factor in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines.
Torbreck is an Australian winery in the Barossa Valley, established in 1994. [2] The winery was named one of the World's Top 100 Wine Estates by Robert Parker. [3] The winery is named after a forest in Scotland where the original owner Dave Powell worked as a lumberjack.
The Wine Advocate, fully known as Robert Parker's Wine Advocate and informally abbreviated TWA or WA or more recently as RP, is a bimonthly wine publication based in the United States featuring the consumer advice of wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. [2] Initially titled The Baltimore-Washington Wine Advocate the first issue was published in 1978.
The popularization of numerical scoring is widely credited to the American wine critic Robert Parker who patterned his system of numerical ratings on the American standardized grading system in the 1970s. [6] [7] Under Parker's system, wines were evaluated on a 50–100 scale that roughly correlated to an A–F "grade" on the wine.
Araujo Estate Wines (Eisele Vineyard Estate) is widely considered to be one of California's "cult" wineries, [1] and has been classified as a "five star" winery by the Wine Spectator writer James Laube [2] and included in Robert M. Parker, Jr.'s The World's Greatest Wine Estates: A Modern Perspective. [3]
Described by Jancis Robinson as "one of the ten best wines of the twentieth century," [4] Harlan Estate has received acclaim from Wine Spectator [5] and Robert Parker, including four scores of 100 "parker points", [2] which has contributed to the wine's high price.
Walk down Reader's Digest memory lane with these quotes from famous people throughout the decades. The post 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Included are wine professionals at an elevated level compared with Wine writers, being authorities on wine tasting, having established rating systems or written reference works. Michael Broadbent, British wine critic, author and auctioneer Huon Hooke at Geelong wine show American wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr.