Full name: The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr. and the Reign of American Taste

Author: Elin Mccoy Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Drinks, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060093693 9780060093686 0060093692 0060093684

This is the story of how an American lawyer raised on Coca-Cola caused a revolution in the way wines around the globe are made, sold, and talked about. The world's most influential wine critic, Robert M. Parker, Jr., has dominated the international wine community for the last quarter century, embodying the triumph of American taste. Using Parker's story as a springboard, author Elin McCoy offers an authoritative and unparalleled insider's view of the eccentric personalities, bitter feuds, controversies, and secrets of the wine world. She explains how reputations are made and how and why critics agree and disagree, and she tracks the startling ways wines are judged, promoted, made, and sold -- while painting a fascinating portrait of a modern-day cultural colossus who revolutionized the way the world thinks about wine. Similar books: Bacchus and Me by Jay McInerney To Cork or Not To Cork by George M. Taber Wine for Dummies by Ed McCarthy The Wine Bible by Karen MacNeil Tasting Pleasure by Jancis Robinson The House of Mondavi by Julia Flynn Siler A Hedonist in the Cellar by Jay McInerney Red, White, and Drunk All Over by Natalie MacLean The Accidental Connoisseur by Lawrence Osborne Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris Who Was Amelia Earhart? by Kate Boehm Jerome Wired by Bob Woodward Private Demons by Judy Oppenheimer John Wayne by Scott Eyman Salinger by David Shields Vino Italiano by Joseph Bastianich How to Taste by Jancis Robinson Wine Politics by Tyler Colman The Oxford Companion to Wine by Jancis Robinson Adventures on the Wine Route by Kermit Lynch