Saturday, especially Saturday of Super Bowl weekend, is a strange day to send out an important announcement, especially one from the most powerful wine commentator in the world, but perhaps I am reading too much into the timing of an email over the weekend from erobertparker.com outlining a potentially hugely significant change in responsibilities on Parker's website and his print newsletter The Wine Advocate.
The main change is that Robert Parker himself is giving up California and will review young wines only from Bordeaux and the Rhône, thereby lightening his workload and travel schedule considerably. The mantle of dictating the...