Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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Sep 17, 2026
Matt MarburyHOST
Oh, yeah.
Matt MarburyHOST
And the storyline was that Colonel Robert Parker, who was their manager when they first came in, but the story was that they were prisoners from a southern jail and he'd won them in a card game.
Matt MarburyHOST
Oh, Jesus.
Matt MarburyHOST
And they're like, we have to nix this.
Matt MarburyHOST
What
Adam TollefsonHOST
the hell's his name? Colonel...
Matt MarburyHOST
Colonel Robert Parker.
Matt MarburyHOST
Right, but
Anna ThompsonGUEST
What is it that you like? Find your region or your grape and then splurge on the bottle that matches what you like for it to be like a special treat.
Anna ThompsonGUEST
Rather than just buying it blindly because it's well rated by Robert Parker, Jancis Robinson, which are huge wine influencers.
Anna ThompsonGUEST
Yeah.
Hannah TerryHOST
Yeah.
Gary VaynerchukGUEST
I built one of the largest wine retail stores in the country for my father.
Gary VaynerchukGUEST
I really hit the scene maybe when you guys both saw me with wine videos in the early 2000s on YouTube and, you know, started to have real credibility, no different than James Halliday or Robert Parker or Jancis Robinson as a wine critic for, from 2006 through 2011.
Gary VaynerchukGUEST
And then at the height of it, I kind of pivoted my career and went into being a Silicon Valley investor and a marketing and business personal brand and running a lot of businesses.
Gary VaynerchukGUEST
And that actually is when my wine journey got even more interesting, I would argue.
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Gary VaynerchukGUEST
I think we're in a very nice time, uh, in the wine world where a lot of things are finding their true terroir, their true balance.
Gary VaynerchukGUEST
I think it's a beautiful time in the world.
Gary VaynerchukGUEST
I think a lot of that had to do with Robert Parker no longer being-
Carlos SantosHOST
Yeah
ScottHOST
Tell me.
Marnelle DurrettGUEST
Robert Parker.
ScottHOST
Oh, yeah.
Marnelle DurrettGUEST
Good for Robert Parker because he meets the needs of people of a certain dynamic that says, good.
Marnelle DurrettGUEST
You have a scale, a hundred point scale, and you say this amount of tannin, this amount of extraction, this amount of bitterness.
Marnelle DurrettGUEST
And Robert Parker says this is good.
Marnelle DurrettGUEST
But my tongue isn't the same as Robert Parker's.
Marnelle DurrettGUEST
And Tim Hanna, I kind of was that proponent helping get Moscato out there.
HoytHOST
I was the sommelier at a vertical tasting of all three Gigolalas, every vintage that had been produced up to that point.
HoytHOST
At one time, I tasted the 85 La Turque, which, if I'm not mistaken, was the first Roman wine to ever get 100 points from Robert Parker.
HoytHOST
If it did or it didn't, it should have.
HoytHOST
It deserved it.
HoytHOST
And that would give her money to buy great wines from around the world to educate her palate on what constituted great wine.
HoytHOST
So she bottled this 1998 one cask separately and called it Cuvée de Cabo.
HoytHOST
And then it got 100 points from Parker back at a time when 100 points from Parker was rare.
HoytHOST
And her family winery, family's winery, kind of went from being unknown to being world famous overnight.
Paul WagnerHOST
So they will be charging $50 for that wine at the same wine that the supermarket will charge $20 for.
Paul WagnerHOST
This is one of the reasons that restaurants don't like their customers pulling out their phones when consulting the wine list because among the other things people are going to see, they're not only going to see, oh, Robert Parker's wine advocate liked this wine, and Rick Cushman said this wine is his favorite wine in the whole world.
Paul WagnerHOST
Which would be a reason enough not to buy it.
Paul WagnerHOST
And at the end, oh, and I can get it for $20 at the local supermarket, and here it's on the list for $54.
Daniel PosnerHOST
And I always use Bordeaux for a second.
Daniel PosnerHOST
I go back to the Robert Parker days.
Daniel PosnerHOST
They'd wait for Robert Parker to give it a score to decide what to sell their wine at.
Daniel PosnerHOST
You need one guy in Maryland to tell you if it was good.
Daniel PosnerHOST
And it's the same with the influencer side.
Darren OemckeHOST
The cellar doors, the wines are amazing.
Darren OemckeHOST
It's one of, I think, three South Australian wines to have ever been awarded 100 by Robert Parker Wine Advocate when Robert Parker was still working there.
Darren OemckeHOST
That was the kind of thing that used to launch wines.
Darren OemckeHOST
And I think Noon have continued to make wines that are, whilst they were very, very big, they've definitely moved with the times.
Keith HoctonHOST
A freed man, a former slave, has just told a room full of Roman aristocrats that the most powerful man on earth has no taste.
Keith HoctonHOST
And he gets away with it because in the world of wine, a freedman who knows his vintages actually outranks the emperor of Rome.
Keith HoctonHOST
That, I want to suggest to you, is the entire story of wine.
Keith HoctonHOST
Not grapes, not soil, not vintages, but power.
Doug ShaferHOST
Today's guest is one of the latter category, reviewer category, Joe Czerwinski.
Doug ShaferHOST
Joe's been reviewing wines for over 26 years for both the Wine Enthusiast and the Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, where he's currently responsible for the wines of Napa Valley, Canada, and New York State.
Doug ShaferHOST
Welcome, Joe.
Doug ShaferHOST
Thanks, Doug.
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Joe CzerwinskiGUEST
okay.
Joe CzerwinskiGUEST
Not a great year, but it was okay.
Joe CzerwinskiGUEST
And I bought a half case of Chateau Clément because it was a very good Saturn year, at least according to Robert Parker.
Joe CzerwinskiGUEST
Yeah.
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