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Chateau Ausone 2002 Belle bottle kept in a good cellar. Robert PARKER: 95 "In many ways, the Chateau Ausone 2002 could be even more impressive than the 2003: This is one of the wines of the vintage which, like castle Pavia, is among the best on the right bank. When it hits the palate impresses [...]

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Chateau Ausone 2004 Belle bottle kept in a very good cave.Robert PARKER: 95-97 "Alain Vauthier door quality at its summits. Under his inspired leadership, Ausone continues to develop Saint-Emillion for reference and designed to last 50 to 100 years. Wine and extraordinary candidate for wine of the vintage, the 2004 looks a blue-purple ink and [...]

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VENDS A BOTTLE OF AN EXCEPTIONAL MILLESIME: - 1 Chateau Leoville Las Cases 1998 - 1 Chateau Leoville Las Cases 1999 noted by Robert Parker: 92 + / 100 Price for the package. Hand delivery to Paris possible. Bottles perfect. Shipping charges € 14 for 2 bottles. No sale abroad. Prohibited sales to minors. Bottle [...]

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Hello tousVoici a name well known in Bordeaux, the Chateau Yquem 1998, lot of 3 bouteilles.Avec just 1 point less than the 1997 Robert Parker gives 95/100 in his latest book illustrated and compared to the same great 1989 and 1990.Voici few comments tasting, but for me, Yquem is pure emotion, a wine to discover [...]

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BOUTEILLE PARFAITE SANS REPROCHE REMISE EN MAINS PROPRES POSSIBLE A PARIS PAIEMENT EN ESPECESChâteau Trotanoy Pomerol 2005 Wine Spectator Extremelyfloral aromas with raspberry and cherry undertones. Full-bodied, withchewy tannins and a long finish. This is very structured. Muscular.Best ever? Score: 100. —Bruce Sanderson, June 30, 2006. Wine Advocate Earthy,sweet black cherries dominate this powerful, virile 2005 [...]

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Chateau Margaux 2005 ———— ———— 1st Grand Cru ClasséGaultMillau: 19/20 Jean-Michel Deluc: Robert Parker's Wine Spectator 96-100/100The : 95-100/100Decanter Magazine: ***** The Point: Excellent 19.5/20 conservation in natural cellar, hyrométrie rates above 60% * * * Level and label parfaitesN'hesitez contact me for details or photos * * * Sending colissimo 1 bottle provided possibilities [...]

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Chateau Cheval Blanc 1999 Saint Vintage Emillion 1er Grand Cru Classe ASelon Class Robert Parker 1999 is a pure wonder a model of finesse, charm and concentration réunis.Les wines are kept in a cellar air-conditioned. Before you bid, thank you to read that to avoid any dispute thereafter … .1. Delivery may take place in [...]

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Vintage Chateau Pavie St Emillion 1er Cru Grand ClasséSelon Robert Parker "Pavia 2000 is the most successful property and it is one of Bordeaux's most gigantic that are" The wines are stored in a cellar air-conditioned. Before 'bidding, thank you to read this to avoid litigation thereafter … .1. Delivery may take place in 2 [...]

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Chateau Ausone 2000 Belle bottle kept in a very good cellar: see 2 photos.Robert PARKER: 100 "Alain Vauthier has produced here a prodigious wine. One phenomenal presence on the palate, this wine has a richness and purity mind-boggling. Despite its rich extract, its power and opulence, the air is remarkably and a surreal delicacy. A [...]

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A great Pauillac if not the greatest. 2004 Chateau Lafite Rothschild noted 91-94/100 by Robert Parker.Une perfectly preserved bottle wine rack. Bottle right on the picture. Port 13 euro including insurance or hand delivery on Noisy le Grand, Lesigny Gate Gentilly.Voir my other sales. Alcohol 13% Approx. No Paypal.Vente prohibited to minors and abroad. Alcohol [...]

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You're bidding on three bottles of Chateau La ConseillanteBouteille from a fund CBO kept in the cellar humidity and T ° contrôléeATTENTION LAST LOT AVAILABLE Pomerol outstanding notes Robert Parker 82-85/100, guideHachette * General characteristics of the wine: Under this label, l 'total production of a bearer areas of well Pomerol.Son very successful 2002, confirms [...]

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I suggest 2 BOTTLES OF ENDING THE PAPE 2006 GRANDIOSE LOTMILLESIME PRICE OF A GUARD TO THE CHALLENGE TEMPSNOTE 98/100 BY ROBERT PARKER THIS BOTTLE TO BECOME A VERY SOON RAREUN REALLY SMALL TREASURE NO SALE OF ALCOHOL TO MINORS

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I sell a beautiful bottle of 2004 Mouton Rothschild. It has always been stored under optimum conditions. It is in his box box, the latter has never been opened! The year 2004 saw the note from 92 + by Parker. It is not less than 250 € excluding costs Port.Travaillant myself in the wine, I [...]

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Magnificent Hermitage Rouge 2000 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave ill. This wine is the result of the assembly of the most beautiful parcels of Chave field located in the most prestigious terroirs of the appellation. The famous American critic Robert Parker noted this wine 96/100: "Along with the single vineyard offerings from Michel Chapoutier, Chave's 2000 Hermitage [...]

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Hand delivery possible Centre.Introuvable Paris and huge bottle: Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru 2002 Domaine Louis Jadot … One of the best vintages of this very regular and very serious home after one of the greatest land of all Coast Nights … … in a beautiful vintage Burgundy: 2002.Grande bottle of custody, beautiful tasting already Robert Parker [...]

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DISPONIBLECONDITIONS A BOTTLE OF CONSERVATION PARFAITESNIVEAU PARFAITBONNES Auctions TOUSESTIMATION IDEALWINE EUR 216 Taste comments: "Medium bodied, very deep, but precise and elegant, the 1999 La Mission Haut-Brion is distinguished by the beautiful complexity of its aromas of cherry liqueur , Plum, cigar smoke, tobacco costs and freshly ground stirred. He talks while flexibility and complexity, [...]

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VENDS A BOTTLE OF AN EXCEPTIONAL MILLESIME: - 1 Chateau Leoville Las Cases 2005, Saint-Julien noted by Robert Parker: 98/100 Discount on hand in Paris as possible. Bottles perfect. Shipping charges € 12 for the bottle. Expedition or hand delivery from the 12/11/2008 because I will abs before. No sale abroad. Prohibited sales to minors. [...]

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Hand delivery possible in Paris Center. One of the biggest Pessac-Léognan of the last century and the next century! A mythical Castle often in a vintage already legendary. 2000! Robert Parker Note: 100/100 Bottle perfect level label and impeccable. Sale prohibited to minors. Vol. Alc.: 13%.

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2000 Chateau Lynch Bages Pauillac red wine-5th Grand Grand Cru Classé-Note Robert Parker 95 + / 100. Note The Wine Spectator 96/100 and René Gabriel 19/20. Product Details: QUALITY SUPERIEURS'annonçant by a dense purple, it is full of fat and [...]

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CASTLE SHEEP ROTSCHILD 19991er GRAND CRU CLASS PAUILLACComparé to vintages 1962 and 1985 by Robert Parker, the 1999 is a great success for Mouton Rothschild. In evolution, it looks today in a color purple / ruby intense and profound. "His [...]

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Robert Parker: 93 + "According to Jean-Hubert Delon, his Léoville Las Cases 2001 could well become as good as 2000. I am not entirely agree with him but little from it. Elegant and medium bodied, the coming together by [...]

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1 lot sells 3 bouteillesChâteau Leoville Poyferre 2004 Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, June 2007 Score: 93Along with Leoville Las Cases and a few others, this is among the stars of the appellation. Made in a more floral, supple, Margaux-like [...]

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A bottle of Chateau Haut Brion 1989 - PESSAC LEOGNAN - 1st Grand Cru Classé in 1855 - 100/100 Guide Parker with Robert Parker described this year as "monumental" bottle and cap in very good condition. Top-level label in [...]

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***** MAGNIFIQUE***** ORNELLAIA 2005 RP 95 DEPART A 1 € SANS PRIX DE RESERVE”20 ans de la propriété”Le Super Toscan des américains Mondavi et italiens FreshcobaldiBorn in a cooler than usual year, the aromatic complexity and freshness of the 2005 Ornellaia reflect [...]

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Beautiful bottle of chateau Troplond Mondot 2005. 75cl. Premier grand cru classé B. Successful anthology. 99/100 Robert Parker. Sold on average 270 € on the Internet. Prohibited sales to minors.

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Seule rescapée d’une belle lignée, je vends cette dernière bouteille du Très Grand CHATEAU CHEVAL BLANC de Saint Emilion.Année 1986, conservation dans une cave souterraine spéciale avec d’autres soeurs du même état. Niveau normal. Bouchon en parfait état, minuscule [...]

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I made a pretty impassioned plea a couple posts back arguing that educating consumers is the key to driving demand for wine. Sounds pie in the sky wonderful, I know. Let’s educate the world! Change, for the future!
Of course the devil is in the details. First off people have to be open to being educated. [...]

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If you have more than a passing interest in wine, you’ve no doubt heard some form of this common complaint: wine critic Robert Parker’s palate, with it’s emphasis for ‘hedonistic fruit bombs,’ has ruined the wine world, because now everyone makes (unappealing/monstrous/one-dimensional/sweet/spoofulated/choose-your-adjective) wines that taste the same and have the singular goal of a high point score from Parker.

I have long maintained that this “sky is falling” point of view (perhaps best typified by the irresponsible polemic, Mondovino) and in particular the demonization of Robert Parker’s palate as monolithic represents a sort of irrational fanaticism with little basis in reality.

My observations, for as long as I have been following the world of wine criticism, have led me to believe that, contrary to the whining and accusations of many, most of the world’s top wine critics tend to completely agree with Parker when it comes to most of the top wines of the world.

And now there’s actually been a study that seems to bolster my anecdotal convictions. Conducted by the Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University, this recently released study was commissioned to examine the hypothesis that the ordered ranking of Bordeaux Chateaux into First Growths, Second Growths, etc. that has been in place since 1855 may no longer be truly accurate. In the process of testing this hypothesis, the researchers have produced the only statistical analysis I have ever seen that compares the rankings of major wine critics across similar wines. And while it was not the purpose of their research, their findings on the correlation of scores between The Wine Spectator, Robert Parker, and Stephen Tanzer are quite remarkable.

In short: these three sources are in near complete agreement on which wines are the best, and they have been for three decades. This result utterly refutes the idea that somehow Parker’s “skewed” palate has driven the wine market to a place that it would not have otherwise gone on its own.

Here’s one of the charts from the report that pretty much says it all (click to enlarge):

This graphic shows the ratings for nearly 50 of the top wines of the Medoc region of Bordeaux by these three critical sources. The researchers’ primary findings about these ratings are nicely visualized here, namely that there are incredibly strong correlations between all three raters as to which are the better wines, as well as which wines are relatively better than others, as well as the fact that the differences between these raters are consistent. Parker gives higher ratings (by about one third of a point) than the Spectator, which in turn is about a point higher than Stephen Tanzer. Over 30 years of data, even in the cases where there is significant disagreement between these raters, that disagreement is rarely more than two or three points, maximum.

The only way this study could have proved my suspicions any better is if it had included scores from European critics like Jancis Robinson, Stephen Spurrier, Michael Bettane, and Michael Broadbent.

But luckily enough, there’s a fairly easy way to answer that “what if?”, thanks to a phenomenally useful site called Bordoverview.Com, which lists the scores for several hundred top Bordeaux wines across the past 4 vintages and across a huge range of critics, including Parker, Robinson, Bettane, and the Spectator. A quick pass through the data on that site should be enough to put a nail in the coffin of the myth of the monolithic palate once and for all.

A comparison of the top 20 wines from each of the critics from every vintage since 2004 yields an overlap of more than 60%. I didn’t have the time (or the skill) to grab all the scores and run a regression analysis on them, but I’d bet good money that they’d show the same level of correlation, as well as internal consistency that was found by the Cornell study.

Of course, there will be people who will say, “well, that’s just the top Chateaux of Bordeaux, what about California, or Burgundy, or Italy, or Australia?” It certainly would be great to do this sort of analysis on scores from the critics for all those regions. But the reality is that the majority of wine critics don’t cover all those regions equally. Bordeaux, and the Left Bank in particular, is the ultimate benchmark for wine critics — every major critic covers nearly every one of these wines every year, and these are ostensibly the best wines on the planet if only judged by broad historical market prices and demand.

So let’s just put this one to rest, shall we? If anyone wants to persist in the argument that Robert Parker is ruining wine for the world then they need to answer the following question: how can that possibly be, when the rest of the major wine critics in the world seem to agree with him (nearly wine for wine) and when it appears that some have done so for decades?

I highly recommend you check out the report from Cornell, and that you spend some time playing with Bordoverview.Com.

Oh, and about that 1855 Classification? Looks like it needs a significant overhaul.

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The Rhone Report: About Rhone and Rhone-Style Wines and Winemakers is part of an ongoing series.

The most famous appellation in the southern Rhone Valley is Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Wine critic Robert Parker makes no bones about loving Chateauneuf, and calls it the most important appellation in the entire Rhone Valley. According to reputation, the French appellation contrôllée system and market prices, the pecking order of southern Rhone wines is something like this: Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Beaumes-de-Venise, Vinsobres, Cotes-du-Rhone Villages Cairanne (and Rasteau, Seguret and Sablet), Cotes-du-Rhone Villages from other named villages, Cotes-du-Rhone Villages (with no named village) and finally generic Cotes-du-Rhone. Check out our discussion about the various Rhone appellations.

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Influential US wine critic Robert Parker has revealed he enjoys a $15 (£7) wine just as much as anyone else.

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