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American wine critic

For other people named Robert Parker, see Robert Parker (disambiguation).

Robert McDowell Parker Jr. (born July 23, 1947) is a retired American wine critic.

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His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate are influential in American wine buying and are therefore a major factor in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines. This made him the most widely known and influential wine critic in the world.^[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Parker was born in Baltimore, Maryland.

His father was a construction equipment salesman.^[5] He is an honors graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, with a major in history and a minor in art history. He continued his education at University of Maryland School of Law at the urban campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, graduating in 1973 with a Juris Doctor degree.

He discovered wine as a st