Parker ne critiquera plus la Californie

Patrice Breton a écrit:

Note : Galloni s'occupera également de la Côte d'Or et Chablis en plus de l'Italie et Champagne. Ouf.

Dear eRobertParker.com Subscriber:

I am thrilled to announce that Antonio Galloni will have expanded responsibilities for The Wine Advocate and http://www.eRobertParker.com as of February 1, 2011. I would like to take credit for my powers of persuasion over recent years in trying to convince Antonio of the virtues of covering additional wine regions, but if truth be known, the writing was always on the wall that his enviable talents and passion for this field would ultimately prevail, and the beneficiaries are the world's wine consumers.

Antonio will continue to focus on the wines of Italy as well as Champagne, but two new areas of responsibility for Antonio will include the red and white Burgundies of the Côte d'Or as well as the crisp white wines of Chablis, and the wines of California. These vast regions will benefit from the increased depth of coverage, as will all the major wine regions of the world.

Additionally, sectors that merit dramatically more attention but have not had sufficient coverage, including Beaujolais and the Mâconnais (now economically as important as the Cote d'Or and Chablis) will be put under a microscope by David Schildknecht, who will continue with his other areas of responsibility but will be freed from covering the Cote d'Or and Chablis.

I will turn to something I have long played around with in The Wine Advocate but have rarely had enough time to do. Older readers may remember the vintage retrospectives called "What About Now?" With Antonio turning his attention to California, I am going to begin a series of horizontal and vertical tastings of perfectly stored California wines that will give readers insight into how they are developing. It has been a long-term ambition of mine to include more reports on older vintages, and this change will allow me to do this not only in California, but also to increase the older vintage reports for Bordeaux and the Rhône Valley.

In all other respects, the staff assignments at The Wine Advocate remain identical. I hope all of you share our great enthusiasm for the fact that Antonio Galloni has finally taken the plunge and will be devoting most of his time to his wine writing career, a job for which he seems particularly well-suited and sure to excel.

All the best in wine and life,
Robert M. Parker, Jr.

P.S. The Wine Advocate writer assignments are:
Robert Parker - Bordeaux, the Rhône Valley, older vintages of Bordeaux, Rhône and California wines
Antonio Galloni - Italy, Champagne, Chablis, Côte d'Or, California
David Schildknecht - Germany, Loire, Beaujolais and Mâconnais, Eastern U.S., Austria,
Eastern Europe, Languedoc-Roussillon, Jura
Jay Miller - Oregon, Washington, South America, Spain
Lisa Perrotti - Brown - Australia, New Zealand
Neal Martin - Critic-at-Large overlapping all areas, plus specific reviewer of South Africa
Mark Squires - Bulletin Board supervision and occasional articles on Israel, Portugal, and Greece

Patrice Breton a écrit:Selon Big Bob, Schildknecht s'occupera de :

l'Allemagne, Loire, Beaujolais, Mâconnais, Est des É.-U., Autriche, Europe de l'est, Languedoc-Roussillon et Jura.

Michel Therrien a écrit:La bonne nouvelle est de voir Robert Parker faire des verticales. Il sera intéressant d'avoir son avis sur des millésimes d'une dizaine d'année ou plus de façon systématique! J'espère qu'il dégustera une vaste majorité des vins soumis à sa critique passée.

In addition to the news of Jeb joining the team and Bob taking back California, I’m pleased to finally report that Bob, the entire reviewer team and I have been doing a lot of shuffling, resulting in new assignments that we feel provide natural fits for all our reviewers while making workloads more manageable. As I’ve already stated, because of their contractual obligations with former employers, we unfortunately can’t reveal the remaining two new reviewers just yet, but keep an eye out for news here on the BB and via email later this month – I’ll let you know their identities as soon as I can! However, what I can share right now are the details of the new regional assignments:

Robert Parker: Northern California, Bordeaux, California Retrospectives, Bordeaux Retrospectives, Value Wines

Neal Martin: Burgundy’s Côte d’Or, Mâcon, Beaujolais (from 2014), Sauternes, South Africa, Port, Madeira & Banyuls (+ It’s ‘Business-as-Usual’ for Wine Journal)

David Schildknecht: Annual Reports - Germany, Champagne, Chablis, Austria, Oregon, Corsica; Reports every 2-3 years - Languedoc / Roussillon, Loire, Alsace, Savoie, Jura, Switzerland, New York / Eastern USA

Mark Squires: Portugal, Israel, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria

Lisa Perrotti-Brown: Australia & New Zealand

New Reviewer #2: Italy

New Reviewer #3: Spain, Chile & Argentina

A press release announcing Jeb and the new assignments will be available to download from the website soon.

Olivier Collin a écrit:C'est également particulier de couvrir la Loire, l'Alsace, etc aux 2-3 ans...