Robert McDowell Parker Jr. Quotes

• Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity.

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• When I put my nose in a glass, it’s like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

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• These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I’d just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?

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• The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

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• Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

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• No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

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• My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

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• I’ve always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

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• I’m an anti-industrial kind of guy.

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• I’m a common-sense kind of guy.

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• I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage.

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• Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health.

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Robert McDowell Parker Jr. (12)

Birth:	23rd July, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic

About

Robert M. Parker Jr. is a leading U.S. wine critic with an international influence. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate, with his particular stylistic preferences and notetaking vocabulary, have become very influential in American wine buying and are therefore a major factor in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines.

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