That storm in a wine glass again

Journalists, don’t you hate ‘em? We who have the power to put a spin on things, don’t like it at all when others do the same to us.

 

I can say this with authority since reading Eric Asimov’s entertaining article ‘Decanting Robert Parker’ in the New York Times last Wednesday (and International Herald Tribune last Thursday). It’s mainly about how poor old Parker has become a target and we British wine writers in particular love nothing more than baiting him. The first reference to this a mention of me and the famous old Pavie spat and the article then...