Parker Jr.'s 100's
Australia
France - Red Bordeaux
France - Sauternes-Barsac
France - Burgundy
France - Rhone
France - Alsace
South West France
Germany
Portugal
Spain
Italy
USA
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Robert Parker Jr.
The annual review of Australian wines by Robert Parker Jr. in his independently published and influential The Wine Advocate has become a highly anticipated event on Australian shores. In Australian wine writing circles Parker is generally loathed, with a reputation not unlike Harry Potter's nemesis Voldemort, no doubt inspired by a soupcon of jealousy and professional rivalry. However the adjective-challenged wine trade and the specialist wine consumer follow him with cultish enthusiasm and wine producers (both new and old) are desperate for the king hit score of 95+ – the commercial equivalent of a home run. A score of 100/100 is nothing short of vinous nirvana, the stairway to heaven.
Robert M. Parker Jr. was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 23, 1947. An honours graduate of the University of Maryland, with a major in History, and a minor in Art History, he attended the University of Maryland Law School, graduating in 1973. For ten and one half years he was an Attorney, a Senior Attorney, and later an Assistant General Counsel for the Farm Credit Banks of Baltimore. On March 9, 1984 he resigned his position as Assistant General Counsel to devote full attention to wine writing.
His interest in wine began in 1967, when he spent a month abroad during his Christmas vacation, visiting a girlfriend (who is now his wife of 37 years) at the University of Strasbourg in Alsace, France.
By 1975, he began to think about writing about wine and commencing his own “independent, consumer's guide,” largely because of the paucity of reliable information on wine quality. Friends and family advised that his career in law should be given top priority, and that wine writing was a romantic, unprofitable profession.
Nevertheless, by 1978, the concept of a wine publication was formulated. The first issue of The Wine Advocate, a complimentary issue, was sent out to mailing lists purchased from several major wine retailers. The initial number of charter subscribers in August, 1978, was less than 600.
Nearly thirty years later, The Wine Advocate has over 50,000 subscribers, in every state in the United States, and in over 37 foreign countries. Today, virtually every knowledgeable observer agrees that The Wine Advocate exerts the most significant influence on the serious wine consumer's buying habits and trends not only in America, but in France, England, Switzerland, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, China and Australia.
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Parker Jr Archive
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - Australia
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - France - Red Bordeaux
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - France - Sauternes-Barsac
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - France - Burgundy
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - France - Rhone
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - France - Alsace
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - South West France
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - Germany
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - Portugal
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - Spain
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - Italy
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - USA
Robert Parker Jr.'s 100's - Complete List
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