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Was the 'Parkerization' a real phenomenon in the History of wine? Has Robert Parker been as influential on wineries and wine styles as they'd want you to believe?

Watch my video about how he came to be such an influential wine writer here: [ Ссылка ]

Today I’d like to discuss with you whether or not Robert Parker really influenced the world of wine as much as people say, and how. If you’ve followed a little bit the history of modern wine and winemaking, you know that Robert Parker has unquestionably been the most famous and arguably the most influential wine critique of all times. For 30 YEARS, from the 1980s all the way up to the late 2010s, his palate alone, the scores he gave to certain wines were followed by wine buyers en masse, to the point that Parker was accused of pushing wineries all around the world to produce ever bigger and ever oakier wines in a phenomenon that was called the “Parkerization” of wine. The question I’d like to answer today is… Was this Pakerization and Robert Parker’s impact on the wine world just a big lie? I was a winemaker making wine around the world during that period, even trained under one of Parker’s favorite star global winemaker, Michel Rolland, so, I should know…

Read Liza Perrotti-Borwn Article "The Big Parkerization Lie" on Robert Parker's Wine Advocate wbesite: [ Ссылка ] (Published 12 June 2018).

00:00 - About Robert Parker's Influence Intro
01:27 - “The Big Parkerization Lie”
06:19 - What Really Happened? (history of modern wine)
10:33 - Final thoughts, "my" point of view!

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