Robert Parker

Ode to the Wine Snob

There are certain things a wine critic can help you evaluate, such as a wine's balance and complexity. But when it's all said and done, there's a lot of personal preference that goes into a numerical rating. Wine is like food or cars or women—totally subjective. Drink what you like,...

Wine Confidential pops the cork on Sacre Bleu

Wine Confidential is a series featured on the CBC, Canada's national public radio and television broadcaster. Get 7 minutes into the feature and sandwiched between wine luminaries Robert Parker, Dan Aykroyd, Gary Vaynerchuk and Wayne Gretsky is a clever shout out for the brand Sacre...

Wine on the Rocks: Finkus Bripp is wine’s video blog graffiti master

Watching Wine on the Rocks is akin to imagining the Coen Brothers, after several bottles each of Cabernet Sauvignon, deciding that Robert Parker is dead and Jeff Lebowski could and should be doing Gary Vaynerchuk's WLTV gig, their way of restoring some weirdly imagined personal order. It's a...

The Jancis Robinson Interview

Jancis Robinson is a veritable force in the wine industry.  Her expertise, her knowledge base and impeccable palate are recognized around the globe.  She is widely acknowledged to be the preeminent authority in the world on wine regions,  wine tasting and wine literature. Most of the great books on wine that...