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Robert Parker
How to use the Robert Parker Scoring System
At Capital Vintners we only recommend wines with 90 or more points on the Robert Parker scale. By sticking with wines of 90 or more points you are assured of optimum appreciation of your assets.
Who Is Robert Parker?
Robert Parker is quite possibly the most influential wine critic living and working today.
Robert Parker is the world authority on wine. He has a profound effect both on prices and market demand for fine wines around the world. His 100-point ratings and tasting notes define wine criticism, and are a major contributor to the prices for newly released Bordeaux wine.
Robert Parker’s influence on fine wine prices cannot be overstated. “When Robert Parker spits, the world listens,” once noted an observer. Historically, the wines that Robert Parker gives high scores to, particularly scores over 90 points, tend to be the wines that show the largest increase in value. Many Bordeaux producers now wait for Parker’s ratings prior to setting the release price of their wines.
He is the only wine critic in history to be given the highest Presidential Honours by two French presidents and an Italian President.
The Robert Parker Rating System
- 96 – 100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this calibre are worth a special effort to find, purchase, and consume.
- 90 – 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
- 80 – 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavour as well as character with no flaws.
- 70 – 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is a soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
- 60 – 69: A below average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavour, or possibly dirty aromas or flavours.
- 50 – 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.
View Robert Parker's interview on Charlie Rose below
Visit Robert Parker online at www.erobertparker.com.
Please note that Robert Parker is an independent wine critic, he is not associated with Capital Vintners, does not act as a consultant for Capital Vintners, nor does Robert Parker or his associated businesses derive any financial benefit from Capital Vintners.