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chin:
I finished watching the 10 episodes last weekend.
Before the topic focus on Robert Parker, the producer made a few interviews. You can see the message from the following screen captures.
1st set was with the Valandraud owner who benefited enormously from high Parker rating. The 2nd set was with this very small 1-acre producer who has his plot right next to Mouton's.
hangchoi:
That's why nowadays bordeaux wines are totally different from what they were in the old days......
My view is that the climate and environment of bordeaux should not make wine like that. Or I should say RP's palate is more on the American's wine.
chin:
The producer interviewed Parker at his Maryland home. How Parker responded to many questions was very typical American self assertive with a hint of moral grand standing.
When asked how does it feel to have such large influence on the market and pricing of wine, Parker basically says he earned it by working harder.
Political languages also came in often in the interviews. In more than one occasion, Parker claims that he "democratize" the wine world. Yet the French actually labeled him a "dictator" because his person taste now dictates price, thus how wines are made. The result of Parkerizing wine is the lost of diversity in wine.
This woman, a sales assistant in a French wine shop, tells what a Parkized wine is like. New oak is apparently one of the characteristics.
chin:
The use of chemicals (pesticide, I assume) was mentioned in a few occasion.
One of the tells of use of chemical is the lack of grass near the vine. I forgot which domaine in Burgundy was this, but as the camera moves from one plot (where the owner refused to use chemical) to the next (where chemical was used regularly), you can see the land became bare.
chin:
These women were enjoying the wine made by a widow who started to plant vine when her husband got sick.
Their comment echos a joke that we made all the time - I don't want to go to the heaven, because all my friends and family are not there.
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