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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 57. Chapters: Robert M. Parker, Jr., Roger Scruton, Colman Andrews, John Arlott, Michael Broadbent, James Suckling, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jon Winroth, Oz Clarke, Tom Stevenson, Cyril Ray, Matt Kramer, André Simon, Debra Meiburg, Alexis... Viac o knihe

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 57. Chapters: Robert M. Parker, Jr., Roger Scruton, Colman Andrews, John Arlott, Michael Broadbent, James Suckling, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jon Winroth, Oz Clarke, Tom Stevenson, Cyril Ray, Matt Kramer, André Simon, Debra Meiburg, Alexis Lichine, Robin Goldstein, Daedalus Howell, Mark Oldman, Andrew Jefford, Michael Steinberger, Robert Finigan, Hardy Wallace, Malcolm Gluck, Tim Atkin, Jeannie Cho Lee, Jancis Robinson, Kilien Stengel, Eric Asimov, Hugh Johnson, Karen MacNeil, Alice Feiring, Steven Spurrier, David Peppercorn, Tyler Colman, Peter Liem, Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher, Lettie Teague, Arne Ronold, Frank Schoonmaker, George Saintsbury, Jilly Goolden, Tom Cannavan, Mary Ewing-Mulligan, Allen Meadows, Olly Smith, James Laube, Stuart Pigott, Edmund Penning-Rowsell, Henry Vizetelly, Kevin Zraly, David Schildknecht, Jamie Goode, Jasper Morris, Campbell Mattinson, Clive Coates, Bob Thompson, Anthony Rose, Franco Ziliani, Tom Wark, Allan Hall, The Naked Wine Show, Eric Arnold, Robert Joseph, Odette Kahn, Steve Heimoff, Antonio Galloni, Nicolas Belfrage, Michel Bettane, Filippo Bartolotta, Stephen Tanzer, Joanna Simon, Michel Dovaz, Will Lyons, Frank J. Prial, Remington Norman, Joshua Greene, Gian Luca Mazzella, Georges Meekers, G. Selmer Fougner, Serena Sutcliffe, Phillip Silverstone, Ric Forman, Elin McCoy, The Vino Vixen, Christian Millau, Richard Juhlin, Alder Yarrow, Derek Macdonald Cooper, Jon Bonné, Patrick Comiskey, Patricia Gallagher, Paul Gregutt, Bengt Frithiofsson, Claude Dubois-Millot, Alexander Henderson, John Livingstone-Learmonth, Pierre Brejoux. Excerpt: Robert M. Parker, Jr. (born July 23, 1947) is a leading U.S. wine critic with an international influence. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate, with his particular stylistic preferences and notetaking vocabulary, have become very influential in American wine buying and are therefore a major factor in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines. Despite controversy surrounding his reviews and scores, he continues to be the most widely-known wine critic in the world today. Parker was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is an honors graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, with a major in history and a minor in art history. He continued his education at University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, graduating in 1973 with a Juris Doctor degree. For over ten years, he was an attorney for the Farm Credit Banks of Baltimore; he resigned in March 1984 to devote his full attention to writing about wine. In 1975, Parker began writing a wine guidebook. Taking his cue from consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Parker wanted to write about wine without the conflicts of interest that might taint the opinions of other critics who also make a living selling wine. In 1978, he published a direct-mail newsletter called The Baltimore-Washington Wine Advocate, which was renamed The Wine Advocate in 1979. The first issue was sent free to mailing lists Parker purchased from several major wine retailers. Six hundred charter subscribers paid to receive the second issue, published in August 1978. Parker received worldwide attention when he called the 1982 vintage in Bordeaux superb, contrary to the opinions of many other critics, such as San Francisco critic Robert Finigan, who felt it was too low-acid and ripe. While there is still debate about the timelessness of the vintage, prices of 1982 Bordeaux remain consistentl...

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