This is the story of how an American lawyer raised on Coca-Cola caused a revolution in the way wines are made, sold and talked about, around the entire world. Parker's influential bimonthly newsletter "The Wine Advocate", with more than 45,000 subscribers in more than 38 countries exerts the single most significant influence on consumers' wine-buying habits and trends across America, Europe and the Far East, and impacts on the style of wine being made in every wine-producing country in the world, from France to Australia. To his legions of fans Parker is a consumer crusader, but to his many enemies, he is a self appointed wine judge bent on reducing the meaning of wine to a two-digit number with his infamous 100 point system of scoring wines. Parker has been profiled in countless magazines and newspapers around the world and most of his dozen books have been bestsellers. However he sits at the centre of huge controversy. "The Emperor of Wine" tackles the myriad questions that swirl about Parker and reveals how he became both worshipped and despised, revered as an infallible palate by some and blamed by others for making the world's wine industry into a single global market, causing prices to skyrocket and shaping the taste of wine to his own preference.
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Elin McCoy met Robert parker in 1981 and has followed his extraordinary rise ever since. In telling Parker's story she gives readers an unmatched, authoritative insider's view of eccentric personalities, bitter feuds, passions, payoffs and secrets of the wine world. This fascinating portrait of a modern day cultural colossus shows how a world that was once the province of gentleman's clubs and the pastime of an elite has turned into a hobby for the middle class and how one man has revolutionized the way the world thinks about wine.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Elin McCoy's biography of the world's most influential wine critic is a thoroughly research and brilliantly written book. This is not just the story of the remarkable rise of Robert Parker in the wine industry; it's also a very concise overview of developments in the wine idustry over the last five decades.
Whether you like Parker or not, whether you care about his marks on the famous 100-scale or not, you will be fascinated by this book if you're a wine aficionado. McCoy is a critical but very fair biographer, and having read this book it is hard to believe that anybody will come up with a better account of Parker's rise in the future.
Whether you like Parker or not, whether you care about his marks on the famous 100-scale or not, you will be fascinated by this book if you're a wine aficionado. McCoy is a critical but very fair biographer, and having read this book it is hard to believe that anybody will come up with a better account of Parker's rise in the future.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Swapan Seth
It is said that Robert Parker can make a millionaire out of you with his mouth. When he spits out the wine from his mouth it can either spiral you into a different stratosphere or can bury your winery for life. That he is more influential that perhaps most people in the world is clear when you see his influence spanning Tennessee and Tokyo. The Emperor of Wine by Elin McCoy is a tribute to the undisputed czar of the cabernet. It traces his modest beginnings from meatloaf to Michelin starred restaurants. Even today, a score of over 90 from Parker can set cash registers ringing over a humble Riesling. Interesting, Parker owes his heady rise to the top to his love for Pat, his girlfriend who lured him from the boondocks of America to the cafes of France. It is another matter that Parker to this day is married to the woman. The book is an interesting take on a charismatic and often arrogant oenophile. But for those who have even a passing love for the Lafite, The Emperor of Wine is mandatory reading. The bouquet of the book is heady, the body wholesome and the flavour just right. Knowing Parker, the book would have got a 90 plus. Uncork it and pour it into your library.
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