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Parker's
Wine Buyers Guide
Robert Parker
Hardcover (15 January, 2000)
Dorling Kindersley; ISBN: 0751388238
Review of the third edition, wineanorak.com
Robert Parker is a hugely influential wine
writer famous for his 100 point scale for assessing wines. You can guarantee that if
Parker gives a good score to a previously little-known wine it will sell out rapidly and
prices will subsequently sky rocket. Some love him but others object to the way one
individual's taste can have such a profound effect on the world of wine. None the less,
the guide makes fascinating reading and the man is concerned with searching out good value
wines as well as describing wines that few will ever get to taste. Whatever people think
of his powerful influence on the wine world, he is undoubtedly a competent and
hard-working individual who has earned his fame and fortune. One quibble I have with the
guide is a purely personal onehe devotes very little space to Australian wines, and
none to the wines of South Africa. Perhaps this will change with Australian wines
beginning to break through into the US marketplace. Take his scores with a pinch of salt
and accept that he can get it wrong occasionally, and Parker's guide deserves a place on
your bookshelf.
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