This entry on Robert Parker will conclude this mini series on wine personalities. There can be hardly anyone with even the slightest interest in wine who has not heard of Robert Parker or his scores. His scores not only affect prices, but also the assessment of vintages etc. There is even a trend to make wines in a style that he is expected to rate highly and thereby increase the profile as well as the prices of the wines.
Parker started off as an in-house lawyer in a bank, with his wine interest starting when he was duing a vacation in France. In 1975, he began thinkin about writing about wines because of a general lack of independant information about wine quality, with many of those writing wine reviews being tied to the industry. He started the Wine Advocate in 1978 and the rest, as they say, is history. He has gone on to write many books (eg above) and contributed many articles to various publications. Parker stood down from editor-in-chief of the Wine Advocate at the end of 2012.
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