Yet you'd be hard-pressed to believe that the high-scoring wine critic owns a stash of B's.
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Wine critic William Munnelly is starting to see Bordeaux prices in the secondary market sink by as much as 10%.
They also tracked down wine critic Robert Parker to his home in Maryland.
As if that wasn't enough, prices also softened on uncertainty over what the wine critic and Bordeaux champion Robert M.
As I prepared for our interview, I was interested in the similarities between Mossberg and the famous wine critic, Robert Parker.
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But Globo newspaper wine critic Luciana Freu(ph) says there is something evocative of this country in the San Francisco River wines.
What has me more curious, though, is what exactly has inspired such an aggressive, unprecedented outpouring of animosity toward a mere wine critic.
Mr. Parker's other now-legendary point of distinction was his ringing endorsement of the 1982 Bordeaux vintage when every other wine critic dismissed both the wines and the vintage.
The wine critic James Suckling, a veteran Bordeaux expert who moderated the tasting in Bridgehampton, gave each wine 100 points and compared the pair to the heralded 2009 and 2010, the younger wine being the sexpot in that pair.
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Never mind that in some opinions the whole rigmarole was a milling anticlimax to the visit of wine critic Robert Parker, the One Voice That Matters, whose tour through a few days earlier was the subject of its own fervid rumor mill.
"Wine is interesting to me because it is related to all aspects of culture, agriculture and high culture, " he says, arguing that far from slavishly following an omnipotent wine writer or critic for advice, it is the ambiguity of wine and the search for knowledge that makes it so pleasurable.
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For our tasting we put 17 boxed wines to the test, inviting friends and neighbors (read: no formal wine judges) over to play critic for an evening.
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