Bi!! wrote:
This was a new show. I thought he was a bit harsh on Aussie wines with
his comments regarding the mechanization of the industry there. I
thought that Charlie Rose was a bit patronizing (for an interviewer)
and stepped all over Parker while he was talking which was a bit
annoying.

Apparently Parker and Rose are close buddies and have traveled together
on tasting trips. Rose was very careful to elicit from Parker his credo of
accepting nothing in the form of a gift or bribe that could tarnish his
reputation. I thought overall it was a great program because it allowed
Parker to lay out all his philosophy of wine. He started out by saying he
was a Francophile but then talked about the democratic nature of ignoring
the pedigree of the wine and rating them on their merits. He also talked
numerous times about young people in the wine industry trying to make great
wines and how he liked to recognize them with good ratings to help them get
going. On the negative side, Charlie Rose was just a little to buddy buddy
at times and detracted from what Parker was saying. Parker praised his two
minions and said between the three of them they knew more about wine than
the rest of the world combined. Leading into the new wine movie about
globalization of the industry, the Australian "industrialized wine business"
certainly did take a beating. I don't think he had one good word about Oz
wine. He also seemed to have a lot of bad words about Italian wines. There
was no mention of German or Austrian wines that I heard.
Bill