What Happened to Robert M Parker Wine Critic?

American wine critic, Robert M Parker retired from The Wine Advocate in 2019. At the end of 2012, he also announced that he will sell a substantial interest in his newsletter and planned on stepping down as editor in chief.

He was also faced with heavy backlash from beverage companies and wine writers across the globe. In 2005, there was a documentary dubbed Mondovino portraying Parker as “an emblem of opulent globalized wine and an enemy of diversity, terroir, and nuance.” Another biography described him as a world dominated by “the tyranny of one palate.”

Earlier that year, his daughter called to report that her mother (Parker’s wife) had been hospitalized after she fell down the stairs at home, breaking two vertebrae in her neck and sustaining a concussion, and therefore, she needed 20 stitches to her head.

“Dad, don’t worry, but Mom’s in the hospital, and she won’t be able to join you in Paris in a couple of days,” his daughter reportedly wrote.