Inside wine guru Robert Parker’s cellar sanctum
Inside wine guru Robert Parker’s cellar sanctum
Nov 10, 2012 6
(MarketWatch) - It’s not often that a man achieves so much power that his name is transformed into an adjective, but that’s exactly what happened with Robert M. Parker Jr., the famous wine critic. Parker is not only the most influential wine critic in the world but also has inspired the creation of so-called Parkerized wines.
Robert M. Parker Jr. over lunch at his house in Maryland.
What is a Parkerized wine, anyway? I asked Parker, who was sitting across from me in his Maryland living room. (When I’d asked Parker if we might meet for a chat, he had suggested lunch at his house featuring crab cakes made by his wife, Pat.) “Well, it’s not a word you’d find in Larousse,” Parker said. But he added, more seriously, that “Parkerized” was a term generally employed in a negative fashion to describe a wine that was “oaky, alcoholic and bombastic — which I totally disagree with, by the way.”
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