Episode 299: The Legend of Robert Parker

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the SOM TV Podcast.

I'm your host, Jason Wise.

Well, today is our 300th episode, and I cannot say thank you enough to all of you listeners who have gotten us this far, and may we see another 300 episodes.

On today's episode, I am going to speak with two masters of wine from very different perspectives, two very esteemed wine critics.

We're going to talk about the legend of Robert Parker.

On today's episode, we will speak with Lisa Perotti Brown, who is the founder of The Wine Palette.

She is a master of wine who worked with Robert Parker for many, many, many years.

Some would say that he was her mentor at The Wine Advocate.

We're going to start with her and we're going to learn what he did for the industry and why some people have the opinions they may have about his palette and the wines that he liked.

And then we're going to speak with another master of wine, Jancis Robinson, who, in my opinion, could be the most famous wine critic alive today.

She was in Psalm 3 and is a friend, full disclosure.

And she is going to speak about Robert Parker from her perspective.

Now, she has a very different way of tasting wine.

I think she would agree that maybe she's into a different kind of wine than Robert was.

And so her perspective is very fascinating.

But more than that, they had a very famous feud over a very famous bottle of wine many years ago.

And she's going to tell the story of how that ended up.

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the SOM TV Podcast.

I'm your host, Jason Wise.

Well, today is our 300th episode, and I cannot say thank you enough to all of you listeners who have gotten us this far, and may we see another 300 episodes.

On today's episode, I am going to speak with two masters of wine from very different perspectives, two very esteemed wine critics.

We're going to talk about the legend of Robert Parker.

On today's episode, we will speak with Lisa Perotti Brown, who is the founder of The Wine Palette.

She is a master of wine who worked with Robert Parker for many, many, many years.

Some would say that he was her mentor at The Wine Advocate.

We're going to start with her and we're going to learn what he did for the industry and why some people have the opinions they may have about his palette and the wines that he liked.

And then we're going to speak with another master of wine, Jancis Robinson, who, in my opinion, could be the most famous wine critic alive today.

She was in Psalm 3 and is a friend, full disclosure.

And she is going to speak about Robert Parker from her perspective.

Now, she has a very different way of tasting wine.

I think she would agree that maybe she's into a different kind of wine than Robert was.

And so her perspective is very fascinating.

But more than that, they had a very famous feud over a very famous bottle of wine many years ago.

And she's going to tell the story of how that ended up.