Robert Parker and Cesar Chavez Inducted into Vintners Hall of Fame
Robert Parker and Cesar Chavez Inducted into Vintners Hall of Fame
Feb 21, 2013 6
(Vinography) - What do the world's most influential wine critic and one of America's foremost community organizers have in common? As of Monday night, they are both members of the Vintner's Hall of Fame at the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena, California.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. and Cesar Chavez, along with winemaker Merry Edwards and writer Frank Schoonmaker, were honored at an induction ceremony where they joined forty other luminaries from two centuries of California wine history.
The Vintners Hall of fame was founded in 2007 by the Culinary Institute of America as a way of honoring the men and women who have had the most impact on the California wine industry. Modeled loosely on the Baseball Hall of Fame, each year a nominating committee, of which I am a member, selects a ballot of several potential members who are then voted on by more than 75 national wine writers, critics, and historians, as well as any living members of the Hall.
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