Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Robert M. Parker, Jr. was born on July 23, 1947, in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated with honors from the University of Maryland, where he studied History and minored in Art History. Afterward, he attended the University of Maryland Law School and completed his degree in 1973. For over ten years, he worked as an Attorney, then as a Senior Attorney, and eventually as Assistant General Counsel for the Farm Credit Banks in Baltimore. On March 9, 1984, he left his role as Assistant General Counsel to focus entirely on writing about wine.

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California, Sonoma County: New Bottlings from Senses Wines

2 weeks ago | robertparker.com | Erin Brooks

Erin Brooks is a Certified Sommelier and wine journalist. Born in North Carolina, she moved to New Mexico to attend the College of Santa Fe where she graduated with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Politics. During her time in New Mexico, she became involved in the service industry and fell in love with wine. She worked the floor of restaurants for a decade, accruing experience as restaurant manager, sommelier and wine director.
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3 weeks ago | robertparker.com | Joe Czerwinski

Although he grew up in New York’s Finger Lakes and can remember visiting local wineries with his parents, Joe Czerwinski didn’t catch the wine bug until he went away to college. During his first and only semester of graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, he spent more time and money on wine and wine books than archaeology. That led to a brief stint in a Manhattan wine shop, because all the British wine writers whose books he was reading said that was the best way to learn about wine.
Austria: Aged Biodynamic Wines from Nikolaihof Wachau

Jan 23, 2025 | robertparker.com | Stephan Reinhardt

Stephan Reinhardt researched and taught as a theater scholar at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich until shortly after the turn of the millennium. As a theater and music critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung (one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany), he switched to wine in the fall of 2000 and has written exclusively about wine ever since.
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Sep 5, 2024 | robertparker.com | Erin Larkin
Robert Parker Wine Advocate - Unbiased Wine Reviews

Aug 8, 2024 | robertparker.com | Luis Gutierrez

Luis Gutiérrez comes from an IT background with over two decades of experience working for a large multinational company in Madrid, sharing his free time between his family and wine. He lives in the Spanish capital with his family. He's a founding member of elmundovino.com, the dean and most prestigious wine website published in Spanish, where he has written and tasted since its creation in the year 2000.
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Aug 1, 2024 | robertparker.com | Matthew Luczy

Matthew Luczy grew up in Mariposa, a small town in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue a music career and fell in love with wine after entering the restaurant world at age 18. With the help of mentors who have become lifelong friends, he passed the Introductory and Certified Sommelier exams at age 22. Around this time, Matthew first dined at Mélisse (2 MICHELIN Stars), a Los Angeles fine dining staple.
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Jul 25, 2024 | robertparker.com | Monica Larner

Monica Larner reviews the wines of Italy, Greece and South Africa. Born in Los Angeles, she has lived in Rome on and off since age 11 and has written several books about her adopted home. Her family makes wine in California. She has written about wine for more than 20 years, starting off as the Italy reviewer for Wine Enthusiast in 2003 and moving over to The Wine Advocate in 2013 in the same capacity.
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Jul 25, 2024 | robertparker.com | Erin Brooks
Robert Parker Wine Advocate - Unbiased Wine Reviews

Apr 4, 2024 | robertparker.com | Stephan Reinhardt

Stephan Reinhardt researched and taught as a theater scholar at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich until shortly after the turn of the millennium. As a theater and music critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung (one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany), he switched to wine in the fall of 2000 and has written exclusively about wine ever since.
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Nov 28, 2023 | robertparker.com | Luis Gutierrez

Ethos Priorat is not only a great book for fans of the wines from this magnetic region of Cataluña, it’s a lot more than that. It’s a love story that chronicles how a sip of wine can sometimes change your life. Elisabeth Hecker was a brand designer for California wineries. She first had a wine from Priorat in 2003 without ever having heard the name of the region before. As it often happens to many of us, she felt the urge to see the place that produced that magical liquid.