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Robert M. Parker, Jr. Quotes
Robert M. Parker, Jr. Quotes
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
American
Critic
Born:
Jul 23
,
1947
Made
Me
Natural
Wine
World
You
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bell hooks
There is nothing in the world like the extraordinary Shiraz and Grenache wines from South Australia. While the most sought-after are undeniably expensive (they're made in tiny quantities from ancient vines), they are huge, rich and concentrated, and represent some of planet Earth's most compelling wines.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
World
Made
Rich
Nothing
Extraordinary
Earth
Ancient
Some
Wines
Like
Concentrated
Most
Quantities
South
Huge
Australia
Represent
Tiny
Expensive
While
Planet
Vines
Compelling
The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Writing
Thought
Made
Wine
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Critical
Slope
Would
Entire
About
Wines
More
California
Industry
Real
Been
Lot
Than
Accurate
Movie
Premise
Started
I always said your best palate is your own, not mine. I'm a guidepost.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Best
Own
Mine
Said
Always
Your
Palate
What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which California Cabernet does. Wines with a broad range of drinkability give you a lot of flexibility; they are the sort of wines that make me feel secure. I think of my wine cellar as security - if the apocalypse comes, I can just go down to the cellar.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Me
You
Wine
Important
Down
Think
Broad
I Think
Range
I Can
Secure
Security
Give
Wines
Having
Feel
California
Make
Sort
Does
Go
Lot
Cellar
Just
Which
Apocalypse
Flexibility
After years of infertility tests, the best decision we ever made was to adopt, and in 1987, we were bestowed a three-month-old baby girl from an island off the south coast of Korea called Cheju Island.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Best
Decision
Made
Girl
Baby
Bestowed
Adopt
Island
Korea
Were
Years
Tests
South
Off
After
Coast
Ever
Back in 1990, there were fewer than 20 wineries in and around Paso Robles, a farming community midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Most of the wines produced there were rustic, highly tannic and alcoholic, with little charm or finesse.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Community
Back
Francisco
Angeles
Finesse
Charm
Wines
Rustic
Highly
Between
Most
Around
Los
Los Angeles
Were
Than
Fewer
San
San Francisco
Little
Midway
Produced
Farming
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Man
Considered
Pleasures
Debilitating
Afford
Sane
Sane Man
Dispense
As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1990 Blanc de Blancs Champagne - my favorite kind - and I plan on drinking it all by 2005.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Great
Drinking
Favorite
Kind
Blanc
Bought
Lot
Goes
As Far As
Loved
Plan
Far
Vintage
Champagne
I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine at all, unless it's white Burgundy, and definitely not nonvintage Champagne.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
You
Wine
Young
White
Think
Unless
Definitely
Like
Cellar
Burgundy
Should
Vigorous
Champagne
In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call 'authentic' or 'natural.'
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Natural
World
Wine
Believe
Indefinable
Would
Something
Wines
Only
Consumers
Merit
Call
Authentic
Which
I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Fruit
Natural
Responsibility
Believe
I Believe
I Believe That
Purest
Take
Bottle
Blend
Most
Get
Grape
Expression
Vineyard
Vintage
Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most perfect wines in the post-World War II era.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
War
Hierarchy
Wines
Perfect
Proportions
Most
Era
Legendary
Short
Which
Produced
Vintage
Levels
Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-vine Zinfandel, which he blends with Syrah and Mourvedre and labels with fanciful names such as Problem Child, the Outsider and Cherry Red.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Problem
Few
Recognize
Potential
Outsider
He
Red
Blends
Names
Cherry
Labels
Child
Which
Fanciful
Region
Producers
Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating. It's the greatest subject to study. No matter how much you learn, every vintage is going to come at you with different factors that make you have to think again.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Me
You
Conversation
Together
People
Matter
Wine
Every
Think
Promote
Something
Civility
Factors
Study
Come
Also
Make
Learn
Greatest
Does
How
How Much
Subject
Going
Different
Again
Much
Fascinating
Vintage
Brings
There is no question that Australia's most dramatic assault on the world market has been with its value wines. These are generally not from specific appellations but blends made by huge enterprises like Penfolds, Rosemount or Casella Estate - the group behind Yellow Tail.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
World
Value
Made
Group
Dramatic
Market
Enterprises
Has-Been
Wines
No Question
Tail
Generally
Blends
Like
Most
Been
Question
Yellow
Huge
Australia
Behind
Estate
Assault
Specific
I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Worth
Rule
Followed
Excess
Always
Doing
Anything
Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Life
You
Live
Enjoy
Pleasing
Find
Seize
Part
Particularly
Moments
When somebody wants to write an article attacking a scoring system or the influence of wine writers, who's right in the cross hairs? It's not Steve Tanzer, it's not Marvin Shanken, it's me. These other people, it's not like they don't have some influence, and I'm more than happy to share it.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Me
Happy
People
Somebody
Wine
Other
System
Some
Cross
More
Attacking
Write
Writers
Share
Hairs
Like
Steve
Scoring
Article
Than
Influence
Wants
Right
I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is because Asians have a great fondness for tea, and tea is a very tannic beverage. Therefore a young, tannic red wine is something familiar to an Asian palate.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Love
Great
Wine
Young
Tea
Think
I Think
Something
Wines
Fondness
More
Red
Beverage
Perhaps
Red Wine
Most
Because
Very
Familiar
Than
American
Japanese
Asian
Asians
Much
Therefore
Palate
These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
People
Meet
Pleasure
Studies
Like
Just
Chinese
Meals
Mean
Them
Your
Who
Saturated
Fat
No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by the same taster without prejudice, can quantify different levels of wine quality and provide the reader with one professional's judgment.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Quality
Wine
Judgment
System
Perfect
Reader
Quantify
Without
Provide
Provides
Scores
Scoring
Same
Different
Different Levels
Prejudice
Flexibility
Professional
Applied
Levels
My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Me
Waiting
Experience
Wine
First
Enormous
Paparazzi
Television
Critic
Trip
Crowd
Never
Clear
Attention
Over
Days
Began
Five
Japan
Japanese
Customs
Next
Tokyo
When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Me
World
Vision
Wine
Energy
Gone
Every
Everything
Bit
Focused
Mental
Mental Energy
Put
Glass
Like
Another
Around
Move
Just
Nose
Where
Tunnel
Tunnel Vision
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